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  • Running doors under Raspberry Pi

    From Nighthawk@21:1/146 to All on Sat Feb 20 17:47:45 2021
    Hello,

    I have started playing around with a Raspberry Pi2, and installed
    Mystic on it.

    Has anyone ever implemented DOS-based doors on such a system? Would
    DOSEMU work on it?

    Also, the UXTerminal does not seem that friendly with ANSI-based characters, is there any customization needed?

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  • From Al@21:4/106.1 to Nighthawk on Sun Feb 21 16:43:54 2021
    Re: Running doors under Raspberry Pi
    By: Nighthawk to All on Sat Feb 20 2021 05:47 pm

    Has anyone ever implemented DOS-based doors on such a system? Would
    DOSEMU work on it?

    No, dosemu doesn't run on the Pi. I think dosbox and QEMU are options for you though.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From Barmed@21:4/127 to Al on Sun Feb 21 21:32:49 2021
    On 21 Feb 2021, Al said the following...
    By: Nighthawk to All on Sat Feb 20 2021 05:47 pm

    Has anyone ever implemented DOS-based doors on such a system? Would DOSEMU work on it?

    No, dosemu doesn't run on the Pi. I think dosbox and QEMU are options
    for you though.

    I believe so. I read an article somewhere on using QEMU like that. I considered it, briefly, but I'm leaning more towards figuring out some
    native doors.
    Besides, I'm already kind of emulating a Pi with this set up. emulating DOS
    on top of it would just be silly.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110.1 to Nighthawk on Sun Feb 21 21:21:49 2021
    `07*** Quoting Nighthawk from a message to All ***`07

    I have started playing around with a Raspberry Pi2, and installed
    Mystic on it.

    Has anyone ever implemented DOS-based doors on such a system? Would
    DOSEMU work on it?

    I tried getting DOS doors going on my Pi but I wasn't really feeling it. I decided to go with BBSLink (bbslink.net) which was surprisingly easy to get setup with their Python script.

    I ended up liking the door server more because I can play with other people (on my own board) instead of playing by myself in a silo.

    Jay

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  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to Nighthawk on Mon Feb 22 08:13:14 2021
    Has anyone ever implemented DOS-based doors on such a system? Would
    DOSEMU work on it?

    No dosemu for ARM64, but I have used Qemu to run DOS-based programs on a
    Pi4. The setup is a bit of elbow grease, and games can take a bit to load
    at run-time, but it works. Other folks here may be running QEMU as well.

    I remember this being helpful for QEMU setup, it's for Enigma 1/2 BBS but
    the idea is the same, dealing with drop files, create the .bat file, etc.
    Can be adapted for Mystic of whatevs --

    https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/modding/local-doors.html

    Cheers,

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