Re: Re: NetSerial
  By: Mark Hofmann to Gene Buckle  on Fri Apr 01 2011 02:16 pm

 >  > Have you thought about just porting 4.24a to Win32?  I'm not talking abou
 >  > adding telnet support or any of that - just a simple console mode port.
 > 
 > I would love to do that, but lack the programming skills to tackle something
 > like that.  WWIV 4.24a will run on Win32, but anytime it
"shrinks" or runs a
 > external program from within the BBS (ie.  door, event, external message
 > editor, etc), it throws a XP error on the DOS window.  There is one main
 > function that handles the "shrink" to allow programs to run
in the BBS, so i
 > probably wouldn't be a huge effort for someone that knew what they were doin
 > It might be as easy as me taking code from WWIV 5.0 and putting it in my 4.2
 > but I doubt it is that simple.

I was actually suggesting a native Win32 port.  You'd lose the DOS based games
though.  Have you considered trying VMWare Player?  I've got a DOS 6.22 machine
built in it that runs really, really well.

g.

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