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echo: synchronet
to: Ryan Fantus
from: Nightfox
date: 2023-02-24 08:26:00
subject: Re: Windows & Unix?

  Re: Re: Windows & Unix?
  By: Ryan Fantus to Digital Man on Fri Feb 24 2023 12:58 am

 RF> Thing is, maintaining Windows 7 was becoming a real headache, so I decided
 RF> to move back to using dosemu2 :)

A while ago, I thought of trying to use ReactOS for that purpose, and I had set up a ReactOS VM, but it didn't seem to work quite as well as actual Windows.

I had an idea yesterday though..  I thought about setting up a VM running OS/2 or maybe ArcaOS and running my old DOS-based RemoteAccess BBS as a game server in it with some DOS door games, and use Synchronet's telnet door to let people connect to it.  That would probably take up fewer resources than a modern Windows VM.  There's a serial driver for OS/2 that provides a virtual COM port and allows incoming telnet connnections to connect to it.

Nightfox

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