I saw a post here about getting WWIV to recognize the modem in DosBox and now I am trying to do the same thing with Renegade BBS. reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ayanokoji · 2023-03-20 17:43 Like the title says. I can not seem to get Renegade BBS to initialize on DosBox. Does anyone here know how to do this? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebookit · 2023-03-20 19:01 The WWIV source code can be found here: [https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv](https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv) The Renegade BBS source code can be found here: [https://github.com/jgoerzen/docker-bbs- renegade](https://github.com/jgoerzen/docker-bbs-renegade) Both run in 32 bit Windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nhaines · 2023-03-20 21:13 None of which had anything to do with his request for DOSBox help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- vga256 · 2023-03-20 21:19 Have you tried to configure your Dosbox installation [using this guide first](https://www.instructables.com/Renegade-BBS-in-Ubuntu-Linux- Telnet-Multi-Node/)? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ayanokoji · 2023-03-21 02:07 I have not tried it yet. After reading what the other poster was trying to do with an older copy of WWIV, I thought it might be cool to do similar with an older copy of another BBS and settled on Renegade via DosBox because I don’t have an actual modem and it pretends to have one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- veeb0rg · 2023-03-21 03:46 It shouldn't be much different to setup Renegade then it was for WWIV. Set the serial option to emulate a modem and then point Renegade at that com port and it should work just the same. e. I grabbed the '96 release of renegade and it works just fine with the dosbox modem emulator. It did need a fossil driver which is explained in the link posted above. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebookit · 2023-03-21 05:18 DOSBox has problems supporting MODEMS and PRINTERS. So I referred him to Github for the source code to the BBSes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- digitlman · 2023-03-21 06:59 Consider using Synchronet Virtual DOS Modem instead: [http://wiki.synchro.net/util:svdm](http://wiki.synchro.net/util:svdm) You'll get better performance and DOS door game compatibility. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nhaines · 2023-03-21 07:15 That's kind, but what he *needed* was a dosbox.conf line and a fossil driver. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BryanLee35 · 2023-03-21 14:24 Could you tell us which Operating System you are using DOSBox under? it matters because if you're going to use DOSBox under Linux and want to host the BBS over Port 23 then you have to start dosbox with sudo -s which will allow you to use that port. If it's a matter of the BBS detecting the Ring but no answer then it's most likely your init strings for the modem configuration try using just AT&F&C1&D2 this seems to work in almost every BBS software that I've configured under DOSBox. If you plan on using DOSBox under Windows to host a Multi-Node BBS then I would suggest using an external telnet server either NET2BBS or GAMESVR and then pass the telnet connection to DOSBOX using Socket Inheritance which will allow you up to 255 node connections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ayanokoji · 2023-03-21 17:20 Many apologies, I should have done that before you asked. I am attempting to run it in DosBox under Windows 10. I am not sure what the problem has been. So far I am guessing it has not been initializing at all as the display does not show anything inside that black box when I press the (I) key in the menu that is labeled as Initialize Modem. I thought maybe it was possibly working but not showing anything, but calls made to it do not work. The copy of Qmodem I tried with can call out to other online BBS systems so I know it is configured properly. I will try that initialization string and get back to you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BryanLee35 · 2023-03-21 17:44 I would also make sure that your windows firewall isn't preventing any incoming traffic over the port you specified within the DOSBox configuration file under the serial section (serial1=modem listenport:23) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2023-10-10 17:25 [removed]