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  • Re: Qemu, Failed to connect socket

    From Hayes Zyxel@21:4/113 to Alpha on Mon Oct 5 09:54:10 2020
    I really wanted to get Enigma 1/2 running but got stuck time and time again trying to get doors running with it. What took days of progress in Enimga
    took minutes in Mystic. I was using Netrunner as my door test as well as
    some new code I wrote on the door32.sys spect. Any secrets to share about getting Enigma to work?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Baud BBS (21:4/113)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to Hayes Zyxel on Mon Oct 5 23:59:44 2020
    I really wanted to get Enigma 1/2 running but got stuck time and time again trying to get doors running with it. What took days of progress in Enimga took minutes in Mystic. I was using Netrunner as my door test as well as some new code I wrote on the door32.sys spect. Any secrets to share about getting Enigma to work?

    I was never able to get DOS doors running w/Dosemu on Enigma... Spent a lot
    of time trying (had some back and forth on github with NS around the
    issue--but I just couldn't crack it).

    Qemu ended up working reasonably well, using the github docs, but I found it a beast to setup initially, very slow to load, and I could only get it working
    on a linux 64 VM (QEMU wouldn't install on my pi4). Plus the caveat from the docs: "Multiple instances of a particular door/OS image should not be run at once!" All that sort of made it a deal-breaker...

    With Enigma, I ended up leveraging external game servers, even set up my own game server using Synchronet (which was pretty easy and seamless, BTW, and
    door installation was a snap).

    Mystic does a lot of things right, including handling doors...

    LMK if you find a solution w/Enigma? It's such a great piece of software.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/09/12 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Drunken Gamer BBS (21:4/158)
  • From Hayes Zyxel@21:4/113 to Alpha on Mon Oct 5 23:34:52 2020
    Yeah, I pretty much gave up on it for the moment. Even for doing my more "modern" door, I didn't want to build it in a way that it couldn't be
    leveraged under other platforms which ruled out Enigma. I hope one day that
    it operates the doors a bit better but I suspect that will be as dosemu
    evolves further.

    For now it is Mystic and it hasn't been a bad choice. The support community
    is good and it does everything I need for hosting the game I am building.

    --HZ

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Baud BBS (21:4/113)