MajorBBS games in SynchroNet?
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enderandrew42 · 2019-10-30 14:50

/u/cloverskull posted a thread trying to get MajorBBS games (wtlord,
majormud) as well as some tbbs games (legends, bandwarz) working in
another BBS. They wanted to run these on a headless Linux server.

I'm looking to create a Synchronet BBS on a headless Linux VPS myself.

Their thread from a year ago didn't really have any follow-ups or
answers that I saw.

/u/danielspain said he ported a game to C to not need WG anymore, but
didn't specify which game.

/u/tele-arena mentions that you can run both Synchonet and WG side-by-
side and have Synchronet then rlogin to a WG game. Is this the only
solution? If so, are there instructions for such a set-up?

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darkytoo2 · 2019-10-31 12:41

I did something like this at one point, I had synchronet answer the
calls, but I had the other bbs software setup as "doors" on synchronet
and had them setup as external telnet links in the synchronet menu.  I
doubt you'll ever see anyway to run tbbs things outside of tbbs since
they're essentially database files.

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tdinchak · 2019-11-01 16:44

I wanted to run "generic" doors alongside some WG/MBBS doors and ended
up writing a lightweight server in node that can do the job of the
headless Synchronet BBS/rlogin setup.

It uses dosbox behind the scenes and I have it running headless under
VMWare.  I understand you're looking to go the other way, but I
figured I'd throw this out there anyway in case it was of any
interest.

Here's my original post about it:
https://reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/czbhwo/doornode_bbs_door_server

The post has links to the source code on github with setup
instructions along with a link to my BBS where you can see how it
works for the end user.  Hope you find it useful.