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| subject: | Re: Save game per user for Infocom type games as doors |
On 23 Apr 2019, Shane O'Neill said the following... SO> I did do you whole setup from your link. It does work with 2 exceptions. SO> SO> 1) 10 minute limit using Doorway until I register / pay them. SO> 2) the text scrolling will scroll new text at time on the top of the SO> screen overlapping existing text. I have notice this on your doorway SO> server too. Yeah, you have to register DoorWay to get past that 10 minute limit, I explain that early in the how-to and explain why. The scrolling thing... I don't think there's a fix for that. It's all in the way screen refreshes happen, and since we're shoehorning something that wasn't ever meant to be used as an actual door game, it's probably just something we'd have to live with. I remember I was tweaking the options as much as possible to minimize that, and I think the example I give is the closest I got. SO> But Im lost in the fact that once that part is all done what is the best SO> way to then call out the game. So in the door.bat where it is looking SO> for what game to run IE: SO> SO> if %1==ADVENT goto ADVENT SO> SO> :ADVENT SO> echo /P:d:\advent.exe>>CFG\%1.cfg SO> echo /B:M>>CFG\%1.cfg SO> GOTO COMMAND SO> SO> It seems to me I don't need DoorWay as I was able to make my zork and SO> such run like I pointed out in my previous post using NETFOSS with the SO> DD command in Mystic. SO> SO> So how would the COMMAND and above section on what game to play in the SO> door.bat file be rewritten? The reason I went with DOSBox and DoorWay was to sandbox the games, since they give direct access to the file system, and I didn't want some unforseen stuff happening with regards to players being able to access my HDD. The cfg files that are copied in that part of the batch have a lot of the same flags I was using for all of the games, and then any extras I might have needed on a game-by-game basis. It's cleaner, and makes it easier to troubleshoot games that might need additional flags, that's all. SO> should the COMMAND section taking out the DosBox line and replaced like SO> this? SO> SO> :COMMAND SO> cd c:\games\!u_games\%4\%1 SO> c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com /m /i /t%1 SO> _zork1.com c:\mystic\temp%1\door.sys SO> c:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com /m /i0 SO> cd\ I'm actually not sure, I never messed with just NetFOSS and DoorWay. I know there's an example Mike put on his site for DoorWay and such, but I went the way I did because giving random strangers direct access to your file system, with no real way to check on that because it's in a DOS window, is kind of scary. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/02/23 (Raspberry Pi/32)* Origin: http://www.throwbackbbs.com -\- meriden, ct -\- (1:142/799) SEEN-BY: 1/19 16/0 120/544 123/130 131 142/799 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 229/426 SEEN-BY: 230/0 240/5832 261/38 280/464 5003 292/854 320/119 219 322/0 633/0 SEEN-BY: 633/267 280 281 410 412 509 640/1321 1384 712/848 @PATH: 142/799 320/219 221/1 640/1384 633/280 267 |
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