Jon Watson,
  In a message on 9 September, to Maurice Kinal, wrote :

JW>  MK> Oh yeah!  No stinkin' dosemu!!!  Pure GNU-Linux.
JW> 
JW> Dosemu will be around for a while to come. Linux SysOps and door developer
JW> in the 90's (were there such beings?) weren't interested in making door 
JW> games, so the BBS users of that age (the only age) never got hooked on any
JW> Linux door game. Therefore the choice to not offer DOS doorgames (via DOSE
JW> will just ensure that you have no users :)

But when you give it more thought, it's kind of silly to keep running 
these 16-bit dos games in an age where 99% of the people are using 32-bit 
OS'es, with 32-bit BBS software, on either a Windows or Linux platform.

I don't know what's available right now as far as Linux door games. It's 
not like a Linux door game couldn't be made that is just as fun and 
addicting as a DOS door game. It's just a matter of promoting it. There 
was a time when BRE was a good game, just not popular, because it hadn't 
been around long enough. But if there aren't enough Linux door games being 
developed, or programmers don't have the interested in coding them, then.. 
yeah, might as well stick to the dos games, and use an emulator 20 years 
from now.

You have a point Jon, about not getting users. If the only games on a BBS 
are Linux-based and not known yet, a BBS probably won't get many users. 
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