Subj : Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To   : claw
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Jun 01 2022 07:33 pm

  Re: Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
  By: claw to Nightfox on Wed Jun 01 2022 07:55 pm

 Ni>> Tradewars 2002 is not successfully running under dosemu though.  It

 cl> What I can tell you is its quite the rabbit hold to go down. There are
 cl> people that take the time to get DPMI working but its very flaky and not
 cl> reliable.

hmm..  :/  I've heard it's possible to install an actual DOS in dosemu.  I was thinking of trying to install MS-DOS 6.22 in dosemu, but even that seems fairly complicated.  And I suppose I'm not sure if even that would help.

 cl> What I ended up doing was having a separate server just for
 cl> Tradwars.

I thought of that, but the whole point of moving my BBS over to Linux was so that I could eliminate the Windows VM I've been running just for my BBS.

 cl> If you would like you can rlogon to my server if you want. I
 cl> don't have many people playing right now so wouldn't mind letting you take

I wouldn't mind doing something like that, but I had users who were playing Tradewars 2002 on my BBS, and I'd like to preserve their progress if possible.

Nightfox
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