Question regarding Dosemu2 and Mystic BBS.
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BigBadBanana73 · 2021-07-30 21:53

Could anyone advise how to setup a door to run in Mystic BBS and
Dosemu2?

I've looked online for several weeks and still cannot find clear
instructions on how to do it.  The stuff I'm finding is mostly with
Mystic running in windows or using the old version of Dosemu v1.4.

I'm using Ubuntu Server 20.04, Dosemu2, latest version of Mystic BBS,
and several doors to test against it mainly Tradewars 2002 v.309 with
and without DPMI (whichever works).

Dosemu2 will run Tradewars without any errors so I'm stuck on setting
it up in Mystic BBS.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,  BBB.

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cyclop5 · 2021-07-31 13:16

Sadly i never got that working. I went with dosemu 1.4 for most doors
and spawned a kvm instance to run tw2002. The kvm instance takes a few
seconds to spin up and has a non-shared filesystem but at least it
works

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BigBadBanana73 · 2021-07-31 19:07

I've managed to get something "working".  What I mean by that is I'm
able to ssh into Mystic and run Tradewars but I'm getting no ansi so
far.  I've created a sh script that executes a dosemu -input command
that will start a batch file.

I've tried dosemu 1.4 but keep getting errors when trying to run
Tradewars.  If I could figure that out I'd be happy too.  I'm ok with
running a single node if it works.

I've even tried to go back to previous versions of Linux 32bit and
still get weird errors.

I remember running this stuff dos but now it's just a bit more
confusing.

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BigBadBanana73 · 2021-07-31 21:54

Is there a different way to run it in Mystic using DD or D3 and the
following command example?

dosemu -I"serial { com 1 virtual }" "/mystic/doors/stackem.bat" %N
/DOS

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trekkingscouter · 2021-08-10 12:48

How'd you get dosemu installed?  I'm also working with Ubuntu Server
20.04, but dosemu and dosemu2 aren't in the repos.

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BigBadBanana73 · 2021-08-11 20:53

For dosemu:

\- I went to [https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/dosemu/downloa
d](https://packages.debian.org/stretch/amd64/dosemu/download) and
downloaded the last 64bit dosemu.1.4.0.7... package and used dpkg -i
to install it.  It may fail making you to run the install again with
the fix command.  Kinda fussy on it at the moment since its been a few
weeks.

For dosemu2:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dosemu2/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install dosemu2

WARNING. These two programs my not work nicely when they are both
installed.  Some configurations are different between the two and may
interfere.

Hope this helps!