Subj : Re: Back to Mystic
To   : Alonzo
From : Bucko
Date : Mon Mar 11 2024 07:04 pm

On 11 Mar 2024, Alonzo said the following...
 
 Al> Hello everyone - I ran my BBS with Mystic software for a couple of years
 Al> and then for some reason I got bored with it and switched to Synchronet.
 Al> After using Synchronet for a while, I began to appreciate Mystic more
 Al> and more. For me, Synchronet has way too much crap on it and it is
 Al> difficult to customize. With Mystic, it's easy t create new menus, put
 Al> any command you want on them, and just customize the heck out of your
 Al> BBS.

What I tell anyone who runs a BBS and is trying different softwares is: You run what you want to run, IMO there is no software better then others, a BBS program does what the sysOp wants it to do. Mystic's menu system is extremely simple and adding new things to it and customizing it is outstanding. Synchronet on the other hand isn't really that hard to change menu's and customize them also. You just need to learn and understand the menu'ing system for that software. I have run both and both have served very good purposes for me. Let me say it this way. Both have a list of Pro's and Con's, in my eyes, neither Cons list is large. They both have great Pro's.. 

 Al> 
 Al> I am going to be sticking with Mystic now. The only thing I don't like
 Al> is the difficulty I have finding doors that will work with a 64-bit
 Al> computer, I want to have lots of fun games to play, so to solve this
 Al> problem, I joined Doorparty. If you're not familiar with it, Doorparty
 Al> is a free gaming network put together at Throwback BBS. With just a
 Al> little bit of effort, you can connect your BBS to Doorparty and
 Al> instantly have access to dozens of cool games. It's great and I highly
 Al> recommend it. For info and instructions, go to: http://throwbackbbs.com
 Al> 

You can grab the NTVDM for 64bit machines to be able to run 16 bit doors on a 64 bit system. My board I had brain freeze on installing doors on Mystic (I just couldn't grasp the setup of them), so I took the easy way out, I built my own Game Server like Doorparty on a Synchronet Base because Synchronet Door setup is so simple even I could do it!! Another option is downgrading your Windows to a 32bit version, I run a Win 10 32bit version in a Virtual Machine for my Door Server, runs great and like I said super simple to add doors to..

Al

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