Subj : Windows & Unix?
To   : tmcca
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Feb 23 2023 22:13:41

  Re: Windows & Unix?
  By: tmcca to All on Thu Feb 23 2023 04:56 pm

 tm> My plan is to run Linux main but only use Windows for Dos doors. Can this
 tm> be done?
 tm> I tried sharing a folder but seems like that may not work or right
 tm> approach. Do I install Synchronet on Windows as well?
 tm> Not sure how this is done or possible.

If you want to use Windows for DOS doors, I've heard of people setting up some kind of game server and using RLogin as a door to connect to it.  I haven't done that myself, but I suppose you could do it by also installing Synchronet in Windows and setting up the DOS doors there; then from your Linux installation, set up rlogin.js as a door for users to connect remotely to your Windows BBS and play the games there.  The command shell on your Windows installation could simply show the external programs menu upon connection.

In Linux, you can use dosemu to run DOS doors as well.  It's not perfect though.  There is a dosemu 1.4 that works fairly well overall, except TradeWars 2002 doesn't run in it.  There's a dosemu2 that TradeWars 2002 runs in, but some other DOS doors don't run well in it (though I haven't seen many that don't).

I was running my BBS in Windows for years, but I moved it to Linux last year (because I had other things running on my BBS PC in Linux anyway and didn't want to run a Windows VM anymore).  I decided to go with dosemu so I wouldn't have to keep running a Windows VM.

Nightfox

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