* In a message originally to John Dailey, JAHMAS said:

 J> > I actually run BRE under XPPro myself without any problems.  Can you
 J> Basically the game just does not load and start. In otherwords the BBS
 J> just does not shell out to the game. My bbs setup is basically
 J> a telnet  frontend which uses Netfoss built in. I've had some
 J> problems with specific doors  i.e., Tradewars and BRE but DoorMud
 J> and LORD setup the same without problems.  I'm thinking it might
 J> be the fossil driver. I know two other folks running XP  and VADV
 J> software and I have tried their batchfile routines but no luck :(

Jim:  Here's a couple of considerations:

* add a PAUSE in your batch file right after the game exits and do a test
yourself to see if anything is ebing output to the console when the game
quits.  Be sure to remove the pause once you've completed the test :)

* You may have a problem with the game not working with Netfoss.  I haven't
tried myself (Synchronet BBS emulates a FOSSIL itself).

* Make sure your directories/pathnames haven't gotten mangled.  A space or a
long directory name may be keeping the BBS from finding the batch file or
directory that the game is in.

* Run the game locally from the command prompt to see if it's exiting with
the dreaded PASCAL runtime error 200.  If so, you'll need to patch the
software with the 3rd party tool you can get at the JDS website.

* XP does play around with your autoexec.bat and config.sys for the command
shell.  It's a bit tricky to figure out, but check to make sure your paths
are set correctly in the environment that's running the BBS.

Let me know if this yields and further info.


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