Re: Re: Doors and DosBox
  By: Nelgin to Brokenmind on Sun Feb 05 2023 01:59 am

 >   Re: Re: Doors and DosBox
 >   By: Brokenmind to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Feb 03 2023 11:18:55
 >
 >  >  PF> I don't think so; passing the door info and a hot comm port into
 >  >  PF> DOSBOX would be tricky. There's been some effort to build a 3rd
 >  >  PF> party 16-bit DOSVDM called NXVDM (I think) that looks promising.
 >  > Since this was posterd I use NXVdm and it works great usualy but once in
 >  > awhile it gets screwy and I have to uninstall and reinstall it but i'm
 >  > running a ton of door mostly smoothly for the most part
 >
 > DosBox uses disk caching so you would likely run into all sorts of problems.
 > There is a version that's been modified but I didn't really get it working.

if you are using dosbox for bbs doorgames and dosgames you want your users to be able to play (like i am), you can set synchronet to only let one user in at a time.  right now we wont have a problem with 2 users on at the same time.
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