Subj : Re: Tradewars 2
To   : Al DeRosa
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Nov 23 2021 21:25:14

  Re: Re: Tradewars 2
  By: Al DeRosa to Digital Man on Tue Nov 23 2021 07:30 pm

 >  DM>  > I was just looking to add another Tradewars
 >
 >  DM> It gave me some ideas, so maybe I can get it working after all.

 > Well if anyone can, that would be you.. :)

Ah, and so I did. :-)

You can get the updated dosxtrn.exe here:
ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/dosxtrn.exe
http://web.synchro.net/api/files.ssjs?call=download-file&dir=sbbs&file=dosxtrn.exe

The "fix" was to implement a dummy "Keyboard read" function in the Synchronet FOSSIL driver. Apparently TW2 is using this function to read the local keyboard (weird) and unless that FOSSIL function returns the special "no key available" value (0xFFFF in AX), then TW2 will never call the FOSSIL function to read a character from the COM port. Anyway, it's working now.
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