Trying to revive my old BBS
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Paplo0 · 2020-07-05 12:53

Hi all...

 During the Covid lockdown I decided to restart my olkd RA2.02 BBS.

 It started...

I tried to access it with a DOSBOX... telix started "remotely",
dialing ok... but I think I have a problem with my fossil driver on
the server box.

Does anybody know which parameters to use to make it work ?

Thanks :)

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stevebourg · 2020-07-05 13:40

It sounds like you client is hosted in a dosbox running under Linux?
What is your BBS hosted under?  Also dosbox on Linux?

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Paplo0 · 2020-07-05 14:25

Thanks for the answer...

Forgive me for my approximative english... and for the terms I haven't
used for 20 years (telix, fossil etc :-)

We have the BBS is running on my  windows 10 desktop in a dosbox.

I started it via my old batch launching the fossil driver X00 then
RemoteAccess.

It says "waiting for call"...

My husband is dialling via Telix on his desktop in another dosbox

The command sent in Telix is ATDT "myip" "port"

I see "RING" in the BBS status window... but it never answers the
"modem".

In local mode everything is ok...still need some tuning but it is like
it used to look :)

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vga256 · 2020-07-05 15:17

IIRC, Windows 10 64-bit does not support old 16-bit fossil drivers
natively. It needs to be running NTVDMx64 in order to run 16-bit DOS
programs. See [here](http://pcmicro.com/netfoss/) for NETFOSS and
[here](http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html) for NTVDMx64 if
you are not using them already.

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myooted · 2020-07-06 21:10

I wouldn't know how to, but when you get it running, id love to dial
it up

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Paplo0 · 2020-07-06 21:48

I'll check that, thanks... it seems it will need more work thans just
launch it locally :)

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Paplo0 · 2020-07-06 21:50

I hope you speak french, then :)

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vga256 · 2020-07-06 23:26

It's not too big of an extra step :)