Subj : Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To   : Apam
From : Zero Reader
Date : Mon Jun 06 2022 09:11 am

On 06 Jun 2022, Apam said the following...
 
 Ap> Cool, though that's a bit weird that it works.. do you have dosemu2 not
 Ap> outputting serial on stdout?

Agreed. I'm surprised any of it works! As far as I know it's using stdout, as that's what Mystic/Linux uses, if I recall. 

All my games use that 1>/dev/null trick or else they output "dosemu dosemu dosemu" repeatedly when the game closes. I use -t on the dosemu command line -- I'm not sure how or why it's all working to be honest. It took me a good bit of trial and error to get things working the way they are. Me and a couple other folks play the games daily and everything seems OK.

I can share my dosemurc file if you're interested. But I don't think there's anything unusual in there. Com port 1 is set to virtual, and there are a couple tweaks to turn off things that aren't needed, like joystick support.

 Ap> Is Usurper .25 an earlier version than the one with the linux port?

The Linux version still has issues outputting extra linefeeds, at least on my Mystic setup. So I went to the latest DOS version, which is .25 -- and it seems to be working quite well!

-ZR

.... One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

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