Subj : Re: New PCBoard->Icy Board
To   : Exodus
From : fusion
Date : Wed May 15 2024 09:30 pm

On 15 May 2024, Exodus said the following...
 
 Ex> One, it doesn't work.   It loads, sure.  The port Rick Perrish did of my
 Ex> 1.19  code loads too, but does most of it work?  No.

at least they tried. it sounds like you just want someone else to do it all for you. sorry i didn't know the entire history of renegade porting.

 Ex> Why would I use another BBS to load it?   That seems counter-productive, 
 Ex> doesn't it?

one simple reason: you could actually do it. the WFC is already useless anyways. all of the com port/fossil stuff is useless. rip it all out and make it work with writeln and keypressed/readkey .. fix all the files one at a time until you can type 'renegade' at the command prompt and it displays the welcome ansi and shows a login prompt locally. wow, you have something that actually works on windows! get over the pride and you can even have people log into it with the suggested method.

now that step one is done, what can you replace keypressed with? it's pretty easy to swap it for a function that checks if there's data to be read on a
socket at the same time you're checking for keypresses locally. wrap it in a function like r_getch(). writeln? send(sockhandle, ...) make yourself r_puts() and write to the socket and the screen at the same time.. make it
read door32.sys files and you could have it working with gamesrv in an hour.

i bet you know the next step.. because it's exactly how mystic works.. swap a
few command line params around and you can have mystic's telnet server loading
renegade. now this is where i'd probably just cram in that jam library you were talking about and run renegade out of mystic's carcass, but it sounds like you don't like that :) so then you write a telnet server of your own, with bot blocking, an event system to run daily maint, etc.

all of this could be one-at-a-time steps with some sort of rewards along the way. and surely when you bring back that blue WFC screen for your telnet
server, it'll be pretty f'n sweet.

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