Subj : Re: Zork as a door in Mystic
To   : Todd Yatzook
From : Matthew no
Date : Tue Mar 12 2019 04:35 pm

On Tuesday, March 12, 2019 at 1:57:19 PM UTC-4, Todd Yatzook wrote:
> 
>  
>  m.> Hi everyone!
>  m.> 
>  m.> My google-fu isn't what it should be apparently.
>  m.> 
>  m.> I'm trying to get Zork (I, II, III) running as doors in my Windows
>  m.> Server 2008 32bit Mystic BBS build running.  I have LORD, Death, Wheel
>  m.> of Fortune, TW2002, and Jedi nights running just fine, but I can't get
>  m.> Zork working.  I understand that the games I 
>  m.> have working already were designed as door games, and Zork isn't a "door
>  m.> game" and requires DOS I/O redirection, but I haven't been able to
>  m.> figure it out.
> 
> Here's a how-to I wrote on how to get it done back in 2014. I had it working
> in Mystic first before I ported it over to Synchronet for DoorParty. It 
should
> work on any BBS package. The setup is the same for any BBS.
> 
> http://throwbackbbs.com/dosbox_howto.html
> 
> Of course, you can always just sign up for DoorParty and connect to the DOS
> adventure games I have setup already. Each user gets their own sandboxed save
> game. ;)


Thanks for the reply!!

I stumbled across your how-to during my searching. Unfortunately, DoorParty 
won't work for me in this situation as this server needs to remain isolated 
from the rest of the world. (LAN only for me and the other old nerds in my 
office..hehe)  I may spin 
up a publicly available BBS in the near future, and when I do, DoorParty all 
the way!!

I may need to resort to using Doorway, but I really want to get it working 
using only NetFoss.  NetFoss should be able to handle it on it's own, and there 
are instructions, specifically for Zork, in the NetFoss.txt help file included 
with the official .
zip.  

The fact that I can't make it work is making me nuts.

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