16bit Doors reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aplos9 · 2020-03-29 17:50 Like a lot of you I'm firing one up during this pandemic, I hope everyone is staying safe. I have some really specific old BBS door games. Is there a general consensus on what the best way to get them back up? I was messing around with gameserver, but the DOSBox doesn't seem to be passing through text. In a pinch I might just be able to use and old machine, but I was hoping to use AWS (knowing there will be difficulties with the older dos games). I was also looking through door party, but I'm not sure that will work. Is there any magic set-up people have used in the 64bit era? Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-03-29 18:34 I use 64 bit Ubuntu 18.04 and dosemu can get the job done in most cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aplos9 · 2020-03-29 18:48 Thanks for the reply! I was trying on windows, but can try ubuntu too. You don't have any issues with the pass through? I see the games pop up just fine local console, but external telnet commands don't work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aplos9 · 2020-03-29 18:52 Ah, I was using DOSBox not DosEMU, will try. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2020-03-29 19:17 I think people use gamesrv for Windows. Not sure though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- the_dove · 2020-03-29 21:16 Apparently they will work in a 32 bit windows installation with NTDVM installed and activated. I tried doing it with 32 bit windows running in a VM and had no luck. There is also a divide by zero issue with some doors written in turbo pascal and running on a CPU above 200mhz, if memory serves. It drove me crazy for a good week. Never did quite get it working. Please let us know if you have any luck with Windows. Good luck! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tdinchak · 2020-03-30 01:05 Hello! I built doornode to help get DOS door games running on modern hardware. It works for me on OSX and Linux, it might work for you! https://github.com/dinchak/doornode ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebookit · 2020-03-30 05:48 http://virtualbox.org/ Set up an old 32 bit Windows in it to run the BBS on. Should be able to use 16 bit apps. Sorry 64 bit mode doesn't work with 16 bit code. Some new Doors are being written in JavaScript. Edit: Typo in URL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- arelas404 · 2020-03-30 19:02 This is exactly how we do it. We have a 32bit version of Windows 10 and use NTVDM to run the 16bit doors. Combined with a fossil driver, this works well for us. DosEMU under linux is also an option. We were actually using DosEMU2 which is just a fork with some updates. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- maskreet · 2020-04-03 19:37 DoorParty will absolutely work on a 64bit OS, easily, as long as you're running Windows or Linux. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aplos9 · 2020-04-08 01:17 I’ve got one running and I think more are going to follow using Ubuntu, synchronet, and dosemu. Thanks again for the tip.