Hi! Nick,

On 11/23/2018 03:42 AM, you wrote:

 NB> Do you even have to incorporate your video card into Vbox? I thought you
 NB> could use their built in drivers..

For the guest Windows system.  The stock Win98se driver would only give 640x480
resolution, maximum.  On my two Win98se systems, each was using a different
SVGA driver providing 1024x768.  Much, much better (I have screen capture
videos showing such).

The wildcat 'beta' type on the Fido vBox got rejected in a recent vBox update,
and turned into a roiling blackhole from which nothing radiated... not even
light.  The other didn't have trouble and still runs great, but I found through
early experimentation that it neither will run DOS programs in a window nor
full-screen.

 NB> Bummer. I was hoping Wilfred would have gotten to that by now, but I can
 NB> see the motivation level has to be pretty high these days to ditch real
 NB> life and work on software for this hobby. However when it does happen I
 NB> don't mind testing it. ;)

Yes, I figure a userbase of two.  My test system has just passed the 12 month
mark, and continues... a Frankenstein-ian entity.

 NB> About a year ago I picked up a dedicated HP proliant server machine
 NB> specifically for this stuff. Once everything was setup and the quirks
 NB> were taken care of, I hadn't had to touch it for months. I'm beginning
 NB> to wonder if that's the reason I got bored and found other things to do.
;)

Yes.  Tell me about your gaming.  Are you doing any ARMA 3?  (I'm seriously
following the ShackTac boys.)  And, am liking the Star Citizen stuff
(especially the 'Con' demo vids).

 NB> I believe James had worked out any indifferences in Mystic's JAM message
 NB> base implementation. That being said, it works with Golded wonderfully,

Oh yes.

 NB> so I don't see why it wouldn't be able to share it's messsage base with
 NB> JAMNNTPd either. Obviously some settings in Mystic would need to be done
 NB> like making sure you don't pack or renumber the message bases, but other
 NB> than that should be good to go.

Yes, I'm looking forward to being able to have another server for Björn to
advertise.  That's something else that FMail failed at.

 NB> I've used HPT for quite awhile now, and honestly can't think of any
 NB> major issues besides my own misconfigurations or forgetfulness (for
 NB> example, adding a route line when a new link is connected, simple things
 NB> like that) I've ever had with it.

I had some bad luck with the Husky stuff in its _early_ days and I've developed
a cringe attitude to HPT.  I eventually got the nodelist and diff-handling
working but had real strife with its TIC & echomail but even then it required
that I invest in some DOS voodoo to settle the beast.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

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