Re: Anyone want to get this DOS DOOR working in Linux for me?
  By: Ebojager to All on Sun Jul 09 2023 20:32:56

 > linux is kinda beyond me, looks like all the exe are .js files. The wiki is
 > confusing as Ive come into this with a prebuilt BBS in Linux and dont know
 > hoe much is installed already as far as DOSEMU goes atleast.

First off, if you don't know how it's installed, then we reall have no clue how it's installed. I would highly advise you to get to grips with all the different bits that go to make dosemu work.

It looks like you're going to have to run all the .EXE files through patchcrt since they throw a runtime error on modern systems. This is well documented and easy to find.

You'll want to setup an environemnt that will run dosemu so you can mount the drives correctly, E: will be your /sbbs/xtrn and D: your /sbbs/nodex directory. Those are the main ones.

Reading the documentation, Space Quest provides its own FOSSIL driver which is going to cause an issue. To test, it would work using neither FOSSIL or UART and it looks crap when using Standard. It displays the dosemu startup text and the graphics are all out.

Maybe Digital Man can suggest a way around the FOSSIL issue because I'm not sure on that.

Anyway, I can probably help get you that far, but not in this post and not at 4:30am.
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