I got dos doors running on Windows 10 64 bit now! I'm using dosbox,
so only one node can access a door at a time, but it works. The trick
was to use the old version from SVN that I linked in the Magicka Docs other wise it wont work properly. So had to compile DOSBox

Hey apam, have you seen doornode? https://github.com/dinchak/doornode

I think you run multiple BBSes. This would help with that and also it's
rather simple to setup and takes care of the "hard parts" for ya. :)

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The more I fiddle with doornode, the more it seems to make sense for me, BTW. I've got it running well on a Pi and I hope it can be my game hub.

I'm toying with the same idea myself. This would be an excellent way for me
to have multiple BBSes. :)

I do want to have a swtich that would allow the launch of shell scripts using stdio (in order to add linux games like Galactic Dynasty). I
asked the author (in a Github issue) and he replied that while he didn't have the time to do this, he'd accept a PR for it.

I'll see if I can figure something out this weekend. I told Anachronist that
I was going to try to get this exact thing working this weekend, so it should be easy enough for me to add a field into the config to either do dosbox or stdio.

So I cloned the repo and added a "type" switch (accepts "stdio" or "dosbox" as inputs), and I was able to launch a 'start.sh' file -- but
not sure how to redirect to output stdio...

Nice! Can you do a git diff or something so I can see what you've changed?

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Yeah, I tried that first. It didn't work, but looking back it might have been because of the version of dos box I was using (I was using 0.74
from the website)

That's the same version I'm using. It's configured in a way where that won't really matter. Give it a shot again if you like and I can try to help troubleshoot. I think this is probably the ideal way to run dos doors at this point.

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Yeah, I tried that first. It didn't work, but looking back it
might have been because of the version of dos box I was using
(I was using 0.74 from the website)

That's the same version I'm using. It's configured in a way where
that won't really matter. Give it a shot again if you like and I
can try to help troubleshoot. I think this is probably the ideal
way to run dos doors at this point.

Maybe if you're looking to access the doors across multiple bbses, but I
don't really see the point of adding node js between dosbox vs using
dosbox directly. I understand you cant do that on MajorBBS though.

Andrew



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Maybe if you're looking to access the doors across multiple bbses, but I don't really see the point of adding node js between dosbox vs using dosbox directly. I understand you cant do that on MajorBBS though.

I think the secret sauce is that it's all configured and easy to make
changes. But yeah, to each his own.

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