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.
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