RdL> I've been running my Max bbs on Windows 2000 since 
 RdL> 2003 on an old PII450.  I'd really like to replace 
 RdL> that computer with a Solaris zone on my solaris server 
 RdL> if Maximus will run on it.  Has anyone successfully 
 RdL> gotten Maximus, squish and binkd running on Solaris?

I'd personally keep running Maximus on x86 Windows. 

Maximus v3.01 (DOS) is stable. All the other platforms are bodgey. 

As long as they keep making VMware work for Windows 2000 I'm happy.

 RdL> A big part of my BBS is the door games. I think that's 
 RdL> the reason why I have so many people logging in every 
 RdL> day. I remember a while back some of the developers 
 RdL> were saying that getting Maximus to run on linux was 
 RdL> the goal, and there were no plans to support DOS doors 
 RdL> running in DOS EMU. Is that still how things are?  If 
 RdL> so, unfortunately I'll have to stick with the Windows 
 RdL> version.

Hmm. The whole DOS EMU part may be entirely independent of Maximus.

Because Maximus can run doors after being unloaded from memory (eg. via
Xtern_Erlvl) it could be reasonably assumed that running doors only require
the same process of passing hot com ports/handles/sockets (for DOS/NT/Linux
respectively) to DOS EMU - assuming Xtern_Erlvl works the same under Linux
as DOS or OS/2.

Not sure if Maximus has to be enhanced for this kind of socket handling.
I'll ask those Synchronet guys.


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