Hey Robert!

Sep 26 19:46 05, Robert Couture wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RC> The way 
 RC> the conversation was going, I had thought you were refering to the 
 RC> running of DOS doors.

That subject was brought up but not by me.  My stance on that particular
subject was there are better games that could be networked using linux
although they aren't traditional doorgames in the DOS BBS sense of the
word.  I am not a gamer so the whole subject is sort of lost on me. 
However, if it were important, I'd honestly prefer native linux bbs
doorgames and in that regard they'd at least have to be multiuser in real
time but could be played by a single user.  Speaking as a sysop, I'd
appreciate bbs apps that took into account that we're playing on linux now.
 Not many, if indeed ANY, true DOS users around anymore in these parts. 
Also, considering the higher number of Windows users I find myself
surrounded by, these same games should be able to be rendered to IE to take
into account the fact that Windows is a highly crippled OS when it comes to
readily available terminal apps for that particular platform. 

 RC> My thoughts were that a BBS without doors is 
 RC> rather boring.

Could very well be the truth there.

 RC> As such (with the most popular doors still being 
 RC> DOS,) I run them without qualms.  Mind you, they are the only thing 
 RC> running under DOSEMU on that system.  And of course if there is a 
 RC> Linux port of a door, that gets used.

I think the Linux port would be the way to go.  I think there would be a
demand for that.  However, the lack of suitable user terminal apps in
Windows is a bigger problem for BBSing no matter what the host OS is, up to
and including Linux.

Life is good,
Maurice

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