• Arrowbridge II

    From Argos@77:1/125 to All on Mon Feb 17 07:56:24 2020
    I am have a challenge getting Arrowbridge II to run. IF anyone is running
    this game can you please post up your batch file that calls this game?

    Every time the game goes to run I get an error that states it cannot find the drop file. When I setup Arrowbridge I, the crop file patch location was in
    the abridge setup. however in ab2 setup, I do not see where to tell it where to find the drop file location.

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  • From StackFault@77:1/117 to Argos on Mon Feb 17 11:34:28 2020
    I am have a challenge getting Arrowbridge II to run. IF anyone is running this game can you please post up your batch file that calls this game?

    Every time the game goes to run I get an error that states it cannot
    find the drop file. When I setup Arrowbridge I, the crop file patch location was in the abridge setup. however in ab2 setup, I do not see where to tell it where to find the drop file location.

    I don't think the setup is different from AB1 (which I posted already couple days/weeks back).

    You may want to check that out. In the gaming echo if I remember correctly.

    Cheers!

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to StackFault on Mon Feb 17 23:20:20 2020
    I followed your guide on Arrowbridge 1, but i'm having a couple problems.

    1, when I run abtools outbound it always says
    "Outbound directory does not exist - Creating!"
    Nothing to Do!
    then MKDIR failed for "D:\DOORS\AB177\outbound"

    2, when i run your actual batch file as my ab1 launcher the thing hangs at 'Returning you to Black Lodge Research' (which i think is very possibly related to the previous outbound error)

    3, How will I know when InterBBS is doing something in arrowbridge? I'm not very familiar with this game.

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to Stackfault on Mon Feb 17 23:25:02 2020
    2, when i run your actual batch file as my ab1 launcher the thing hangs
    at 'Returning you to Black Lodge Research' (which i think is very possibly related to the previous outbound error)

    Sorry disregard this one :) I typo'd the filebox dir

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  • From StackFault@77:1/117 to Embalmed on Tue Feb 18 11:23:10 2020
    I followed your guide on Arrowbridge 1, but i'm having a couple problems.

    1, when I run abtools outbound it always says
    "Outbound directory does not exist - Creating!"
    Nothing to Do!
    then MKDIR failed for "D:\DOORS\AB177\outbound"

    That folder really exists right?

    I remember seeing this in the beginning, don't clearly remember what I did to fix it. What happens when you run abtools inbound?

    2, when i run your actual batch file as my ab1 launcher the thing hangs
    at 'Returning you to Black Lodge Research' (which i think is very possibly related to the previous outbound error)

    Try running each command in a dosemu prompt first to see what is happening.
    - abtools inbound
    - then play the game locally
    - abtools outbound

    You will catch everything that is not right and be able to fix it.

    3, How will I know when InterBBS is doing something in arrowbridge? I'm not very familiar with this game.

    After running abtools outbound, it should create a file in your outbound folder, then move it to your filebox directory. You then should have a semaphore file created so that Mystic runs a fidopoll send.

    Also, running abtools inbound should process the ab1 files in your inbound echomail folder.

    Cheers!

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  • From StackFault@77:1/117 to Embalmed on Tue Feb 18 11:23:32 2020
    2, when i run your actual batch file as my ab1 launcher the thing han at 'Returning you to Black Lodge Research' (which i think is very possibly related to the previous outbound error)

    Sorry disregard this one :) I typo'd the filebox dir

    Good! but too late :)

    Cheers!

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to StackFault on Tue Feb 18 14:00:22 2020
    Sorry disregard this one :) I typo'd the filebox dir

    Good! but too late :)

    Yet another example or not reading to the end before responding, lol.

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to StackFault on Tue Feb 18 12:00:06 2020
    I followed your guide on Arrowbridge 1, but i'm having a couple probl

    1, when I run abtools outbound it always says
    "Outbound directory does not exist - Creating!"
    Nothing to Do!
    then MKDIR failed for "D:\DOORS\AB177\outbound"
    That folder really exists right?

    Yes the folder exists, and files are showing up in the outbound folder, but every time the abtools outbound is executed it says that and tries to create the folder. I wondered if this is a UPPERCASE/LOWERCASE issue, but it shouldn't be because everything is running in dosemu which is not case sensitive

    After running abtools outbound, it should create a file in your outbound folder, then move it to your filebox directory. You then should have a semaphore file created so that Mystic runs a fidopoll send.

    Also, running abtools inbound should process the ab1 files in your
    inbound echomail folder.

    All of these things appear to be working, I just was wondering In Game what I should see, I'm really not sure what InterBBS arrowbridge brings? Foreign castle ownership?

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to Netsurge on Tue Feb 18 12:03:16 2020
    Yet another example or not reading to the end before responding, lol.

    :P sorry sometimes just writing the message out triggers something in my mind right after I hit send.

    I know you aren't particularly complaining at me, but since I've already done this a few times to you guys (send a mail and then almost immediately send another one with an update), figured I would say something.

    Non threaded messages are definitely harder to deal with, especially if you haven't read/responded to messages in a few days.

    So.. apologies, I'm sure I'll do it again :P

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Embalmed on Tue Feb 18 16:11:58 2020
    Yes the folder exists, and files are showing up in the outbound folder, but every time the abtools outbound is executed it says that and tries
    to create the folder. I wondered if this is a UPPERCASE/LOWERCASE
    issue, but it shouldn't be because everything is running in dosemu which is not case sensitive

    I get this when process my scripts as well, it complains about it but goes on it's marry path and processes all the packets and creates new ones. I just ignore it as it doesn't affect the game or the InterBBS play.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Embalmed on Tue Feb 18 16:13:10 2020
    I know you aren't particularly complaining at me, but since I've already done this a few times to you guys (send a mail and then almost
    immediately send another one with an update), figured I would say something.


    Not at all, I just find it hilarious as we all do it all the time and we were just talking about it. No need to apologize at all. StackFault and myself
    have done this multiple times this week alone, lol.

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to Netsurge on Tue Feb 18 14:49:42 2020
    I get this when process my scripts as well, it complains about it but
    goes on it's marry path and processes all the packets and creates new ones. I just ignore it as it doesn't affect the game or the InterBBS
    play.

    Ah ok, Well then I think I have all the games I signed up for working.
    Falcons Eye, Arrowbridge1, Arrowbridge2, InterLord

    All of the files are being processed out of the echomail/in folder

    My poll script fidopolls fsxnet and scinet then runs the interbbs maintenance every hour and triggers the echomail.out semaphore

    I also added inbound processing before the game launches and outbound after
    the game process like Stackfault's AB1 example.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Embalmed on Tue Feb 18 18:45:50 2020
    Ah ok, Well then I think I have all the games I signed up for working. Falcons Eye, Arrowbridge1, Arrowbridge2, InterLord


    DOSEMU is using FreeDOS which has slightly different API calls than MS DOS does. Some time wonky thinks occur because of that. As long as it works I wouldn't worry about it.

    I have you reading 5x5 in all the games.

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to Netsurge on Tue Feb 18 16:17:16 2020
    I have you reading 5x5 in all the games.

    Yay :)

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  • From StackFault@77:1/117 to Netsurge on Tue Feb 18 22:17:28 2020
    Good! but too late :)

    Yet another example or not reading to the end before responding, lol.

    Yep absolutely. And guess what?! I'm doing it again now... let's see what awaits lol

    Cheers!

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  • From StackFault@77:1/117 to Embalmed on Tue Feb 18 22:19:38 2020
    All of these things appear to be working, I just was wondering In Game what I should see, I'm really not sure what InterBBS arrowbridge brings? Foreign castle ownership?

    AB1 is a bit more limited in terms of IBBS. I think it's written in the docs <chuckles>.

    AB2 adds a bit more but since I was the only board running according to the stats posting, I was unable to validate. I'll have to check if more boards
    are now hooked up.

    Cheers!

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to Stackfault on Tue Feb 18 23:14:30 2020
    So when i ran ab2tools create it created directories but the maps, dungeons, etc directories are empty.

    there is a mapsrc.zip in the bundle that has some .DDB files but i think
    those are for building my own maps.

    when i play the game the first dungeon directly above the starting city
    crashed me out saying

    error 53 file not found lair11.dng

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  • From Embalmed@77:1/133 to All on Tue Feb 18 23:22:06 2020
    when i play the game the first dungeon directly above the starting city crashed me out saying

    error 53 file not found lair11.dng

    Bah, I figured it out again shortly after sending the message. The
    install.bat deletes a bunch of files after it installs them and i think I removed and recreated the maps/dungeons etc thinking ab2tools create was
    going to refill them.

    Unpacked the original zip again and ran the install.bat and i'm all set.

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to Embalmed on Wed Feb 19 09:15:18 2020
    Bah, I figured it out again shortly after sending the message. The install.bat deletes a bunch of files after it installs them and i think I removed and recreated the maps/dungeons etc thinking ab2tools create was going to refill them.

    I could myself this time and read till the end of the echo before I replied
    to your original message. Woosh, caught that one before it happened.

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  • From StackFault@77:1/117 to Embalmed on Wed Feb 19 09:50:44 2020
    So when i ran ab2tools create it created directories but the maps, dungeons, etc directories are empty.

    there is a mapsrc.zip in the bundle that has some .DDB files but i think those are for building my own maps.

    when i play the game the first dungeon directly above the starting city crashed me out saying

    I saw in the stats you are using version 2.20 while I have 2.18. I wonder if this is not an update requiring you to have the version already installed and the update does not contains the maps?

    I've put on my list of things to look at this 2.20 version upgrade but
    haven't yet.

    Cheers!

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