Subj : Re: DOS DOOR games on a Raspi with Raspian
To   : goto_KCM
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Apr 25 2021 10:32 am

 go> Ok, i manage to get qemu and freedos starting. There is actual a bug in
 go> the seabios package on raspbian that keeps you from installing freedos
 go> with a CD image. But ok, fixed that.
 go> 
 go> Nothing else happens.
 go> 
 go> Some thoughts about that?

So I just got local door games working on a Raspberry Pi with Mystic BBS software.

APAM released a package called dosbox_rpi.zip that helps his Talisman sysOps get local door games running. I had to do a few extra steps; like I had to add the line:

cp $HOME/mystic/temp${NODE}/DOOR.SYS $HOME/mystic/temp${NODE}/door.sys

To all .shim.sh scripts... Mystic saves as DOOR.SYS and APAMs setup wants door.sys... also, in your menu commands you have to run a (DD) Run External with data like this:

~/doors/lisa.sh %3 /DOS

It needs the /DOS so that Mystic creates the correct DOS version of the DOOR.SYS file. 

And I'm planning on creating a text file with ALL the additional steps I took listed out... you can find dosbox_rpi.zip on my BBS, or I can email it to you. And this is current info, 4/25/21, to get DOS door games running using DOSBox and APAMs helper scripts. Its a really nice setup; with different /dirs for nodes... I'd suggest this route and I've been trying to get local doors running under RPi for a while and this was by far the easiest and most put together method/package that I've found.

Sorry I didn't answer your actual question - but I wanna make sure you know about this option.



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