Subj : Re: Tournament Trivia BBS door - Linux port?
To   : Gryphon
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon May 05 2025 01:20 pm

  Re: Re: Tournament Trivia BBS door - Linux port?
  By: Gryphon to Nightfox on Tue May 06 2025 07:58 am

 Ni>> The author of Tournament Trivia has released the source code (as well as
 Ni>> a key generator with source) here:
 Ni>> https://github.com/evanelias/tournament-trivia

 Ni>> It uses OpenDoors (a Windows BBS door game toolkit) as well as Windows.h
 Ni>> (a C/C++ header file with some Windows definitions), so it looks like it
 Ni>> might not be trivial to port to Linux. I could have a look into it, but
 Ni>> I'm curious if anyone has already tried porting this door game to Linux?

 Gr> If the source is available, the very least that can be accomplished is a
 Gr> reverse-engineered version.

Yeah, I've started having a look at it.  There's a version of OpenDoors included with Synchronet that can be built for Linux (as well as Windows), so that's a plus.  But the Tournament Trivia source code also uses Windows mail slots for inter-process communication; for Linux, it would have to use something else, perhaps named pipes or sockets or something.  I'm still curious to try to get it to build & run in Linux, though I suppose it isn't a big priority for me since I have other trivia doors on my BBS now.

Nightfox
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