Issues with Synchronet on Windows 7 32 after moving from VM reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rotan79 · 2019-06-05 15:12 Hey guys, I've made some great progress in setting up a BBS for work. I setup Synchronet at home on a Win XP VM and got Usurper and LORD working. Then I setup a Win 7 32bit laptop at work and I installed Synchronet. I copied over my BBS from the VM over the laptop's files. I can log into my BBS but when I try to run LORD or Usurper, I get a blank DOS window and I get messages in pink on my Synchronet: Node 1 VDD Open failed (not loaded yet?) I can run the default games where were provided with the BBS without issue. Any ideas what's going on? I thought maybe I had to run Synchronet as Admin but that didn't resolve the issue. I've also copied the sbbsexec.dll over the copy that was in my Windows/System32 folder. I also lowered UAC in case that was causing the issue. Terminal Service Config also has DOS Program Support checked - this is baffling. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xianoth · 2019-06-05 20:24 Have you check that virtual device support are turned on in the BIOS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rotan79 · 2019-06-05 20:28 That is probably the only thing I didn't think about trying. I'll give that a shot when I get home. Outside of that I'm going to probably transfer my vm over to a laptop and try that since I have that working. Appreciate the help, I'll let you know if that works! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xianoth · 2019-06-05 20:30 sounds good! Good luck! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- orexclusivo · 2019-06-05 21:06 Cool that you are setting up a BBS a work, what are you using it for? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rotan79 · 2019-06-05 23:41 Thanks! My boss is my buddy and we've reminisced in the past about how awesome BBS's were back in the day so I thought it would be a great idea to set one up so that we could play and show our younger co-workers what our world was like before the internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rotan79 · 2019-06-05 23:41 Sadly they were already on in the BIOS... my next step is to copy over my VM and see if I can connect through that. My buddy suggested we could even try to setup a VM in our cloud. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xianoth · 2019-06-06 00:23 sounds like a plan. I am going to try again in the near future. I was having a hell of a time setting up fidonet and then life caught up with me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- rotan79 · 2019-06-06 03:44 Got it working on a VM and bridged the VM's network connection with the laptop and bam - I was able to log into the BBS from my machine to the laptop. Going to set this up at work tomorrow for everyone to try out. Appreciate all the help everyone! I hope you can get it going, it's been fun trying to get a bbs to work. I tried Mystic and Synchronet and Synchronet was by far way easier for me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- orexclusivo · 2019-06-06 17:21 A noble endeavor, indeed!