ac> DOSBox can be set up so it can listen on a TCP port and 
 ac> redirect data to its virtual COM port.  In dosbox.conf:

 ac> serial1=modem listenport:5000

Very cool.  I could probably get at least one node running using this kind
of set up.  I would install everything related to the BBS inside of dosbox,
except maybe binkd.

 ac> If you can somehow get the Linux version of Maximus to 
 ac> make an outbound TCP connection, you could tell it to 
 ac> start DOSBox and run the DOS door game then connect to 
 ac> localhost on the port DOSBox is listening on.

That would have to be done by the Maximus programmers.  I don't know C

 ac> Or you could just run the DOS version of Maximus under 
 ac> DOSBox, and put up with whatever limitations it has 
 ac> compared to the Linux version.

I might give this a try sometime.  Tonight I moved the BBS off my old
PII450 onto a newer P4 1.5 GHz Windows XP machine which I haven't used much
in the last few months.  I found the BBS was sometimes very sluggish to
start when you first connected on the old machine. The problem I'm having
now is the TP7P5FIX.COM TSR designed to fix the Runtime Error 200 in pascal
programs doesn't work on my faster computer.  It was designed for slower
PII computers and works great on them...  So it seems that I might have to
give up my pascal doors such as Planets TEOS :(  That _really_ sucks. I'd
probably have the same problem in dosbox and dosemu.


Thanks,
Ryan
   

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