Subj : Re: food fite
To   : Exodus
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Jun 23 2024 06:21 pm

  Re: Re: food fite
  By: Exodus to Digital Man on Sun Jun 23 2024 06:27 pm

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 >  > UG> Not many people run wwiv, but more run Mystic.
 >
 >  > Who runs WWiV?  I'm talking about regular doors.
 >
 > DM> Maybe you're not aware of it, but one of the original and most popular
 > DM> onl BBS games that goes by the name "Food Fight!" was written (by Rigor
 > DM> Mortis a "WWIV Chain". It works in all versions of Synchronet too, but
 > DM> not most o BBS programs since it sends its output via DOS int21h (not
 > DM> FOSSIL or direc UART/COM I/O), it sends WWIV color codes, not ANSI
 > DM> escape sequences, and i reads WWIV's CHAIN.TXT file (not any other
 > DM> "standard" drop file). https://www.bbsgames.org/wiki/Food_Fight
 >
 > Shouldn't this be able to run on any BBS that makes the CHAIN.TXT dropfile
 > then?

No. Most BBS programs do not intercept DOS int21h output from external programs, nor do they expand WWIV color codes (so-called "heart codes" because the escape character, Ctrl-C, can be rendered in CP437 as a heart symbol) to the appropriate (e.g. ANSI) escape sequences for the remote terminal. And for this reason, most BBS programs don't create the CHAIN.TXT dropfile either.
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