Trying to get Darklands Running (Mystic, Ubuntu) reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dolgfinnstjarna · 2019-02-09 02:38 Ok, so I posted earlier about doormud, but clearly didn't give enough information. (I never got that working and gave up on it. I DID get lord2 running, if anyone has a walkthrough for doormud with dosemu, let me know). ​ I am now trying to get Darklands running on my BBS (Linux Native) ​ 1st, I have it running locally on node 0, but it will not show as registered despite the key being presented. 2nd, when trying to run it from Mystic it flashes an error saying that setup.dat is unreadable and to generate a new one. ​ Does anyone have any experience getting Darklands running? (darklands.cx) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2019-02-09 06:43 All dos doors are the same. You haven’t posted anything about your setup, batch files, command line, error message...hence my response on doormud. I have it working just fine. Regarding Linux native doors,you’ve still provided no real information. My suggestion based on the amount of information you have provided is to try using a potato and see if that helps. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dolgfinnstjarna · 2019-02-09 13:46 It is running on Ubuntu 18.04 with 25 GB hard drive space, 2 GB RAM, and 1TB monthly transfer rate. Mystic latest version is running on the server. The syslog has no relevant output or data. Selinux is disabled. Iptables are setup to allow BBS connection. No other os changes were made (sans installation of Mystic, dosemu, and bnu). The steps taken to install the programs were per documentation with no variation. The dmud issue showed no error or screen within Mystic and did run on local node after setup per documentation. Nodes were setup as door.sys as directed in the documentation. No relevant logs were found. Darklands nodes were setup per documentation. It runs on local node. When running from mystic the "setup.cfg" is showing as unreadable in a flashed error message before dumping back to the BBS. Setup was reattempted as suggested. There is literally no other useful information. Based on your recommendation of potato, and assertion that all dos doors are the same (some being developed in C++, some in Pascal, and some more esoterically than the former 2) I must conclude you lack basic understanding of how computers work. A more appropriate condescension would be to recommend attempting "# rm -rf /*.*" And seeing if that resolves the issue. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2019-02-12 16:51 Thanks for the additional details :) Is your OS 32 or 64 bit? The reason I ask is because 64 bit modern linux doesn't *really* have backwards compatibility with 16 bit programs any more, which it turns out is what BBS doors mostly are. Can you try modifying your door's batch script (.bat file) to remove the @echo off line, and throw in some random `pause` prompts, to try to ascertain what's going on? If it's unable to read a file (setup.cfg in this case) I think it's likely an encoding issue. Linux and dos do different carriage returns. Since you're on ubuntu, you can install a package 'tofromdos' or something like that, and then any time you modify a text file in linux that will be used by dosemu, run 'todos ' to correct the carriage returns. Hopefully this'll get you started. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dolgfinnstjarna · 2019-02-12 17:05 Dos2unix. And I'll give that a try, thanks! It is now saying Setup.dat is the problem (binary file) so progress, I guess? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2019-02-13 01:03 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cloverskull · 2019-05-10 21:32 I recently set up doormud myself - let me know if you want to chat about this. I was using Ubuntu, 64 bit, with DosEMU (and BNU as the fossil). My bbs software is Mystic. I'm curious about Darklands. You tried getting the linux native version to work, right? Did you ever have any luck? Did you try the DOS version at all?