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    From ryan@21:1/168 to All on Mon Mar 9 16:36:14 2020
    Hey guys,

    I'm sure some of you have seen my posts regarding frustration getting
    Nuitari's old game "Darklands" to run - http://darklands.cx

    Well, I've had a breakthrough. I've gotten it to work with doornode - https://github.com/dinchak/doornode - and for those of you on a Pi or in Windows 64 bit struggling to get dos doors working, I recommend giving this a shot.

    Furthermore, I've been able to create a local environment where I can
    generate key files for Darklands. Hit me up if you want to get rid of the annoying nags and long pauses.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (21:1/168)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to ryan on Tue Mar 10 15:09:06 2020
    Well, I've had a breakthrough. I've gotten it to work with doornode - https://github.com/dinchak/doornode - and for those of you on a Pi or in Windows 64 bit struggling to get dos doors working, I recommend giving this a shot.

    Nice. Doornoode seems to fit the bill for a bare-bones doorserver situation. I'm going to give it another look for my Pi4. Any setup or optimization tips? Have you configured any other games?

    Furthermore, I've been able to create a local environment where I can generate key files for Darklands. Hit me up if you want to get rid of the annoying nags and long pauses.

    Yes, please. I'll send you a Netmail.

    Cheers,

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  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Alpha on Tue Mar 10 08:14:48 2020
    Nice. Doornoode seems to fit the bill for a bare-bones doorserver situation. I'm going to give it another look for my Pi4. Any setup or optimization tips? Have you configured any other games?

    It took multiple tries for me to get it to work, and frankly I'm not sure
    what exactly I had to do to make it play nice hehe. Perhaps a combination of things. Not sure.

    I can spin up a fresh VM and try again just for the sake of running through
    the motions.

    When using rlogin from mystic, I used IR (outbound RLogin) with
    /addr=localhost /port=<port> /name=Darkland /pass=@USER@

    I'm not 100% sure that's passing the correct user info. But evidently
    doornode is looking for the name of the doorgame as the first argument.

    Yes, please. I'll send you a Netmail.

    Looks like automatic keyfile generation is still available on the darklands website, but I can create one for you nevertheless :)

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (21:1/168)
  • From Alpha@21:4/158 to ryan on Tue Mar 10 18:53:02 2020
    It took multiple tries for me to get it to work, and frankly I'm not sure what exactly I had to do to make it play nice hehe. Perhaps a
    combination of things. Not sure.

    My issue with Doornode currently is that on game/dosbox exit, the user isn't returned to the BBS. It just freezes, on all games. I'm on RPi4/Buster,
    running both Mystic and Doornode. Did you experience this, Ryan?

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/03/07 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Card & Claw BBS | Analog Gaming: Board Games, RPGs (21:4/158)
  • From ryan@21:1/168 to Alpha on Tue Mar 10 12:19:44 2020
    My issue with Doornode currently is that on game/dosbox exit, the user isn't returned to the BBS. It just freezes, on all games. I'm on RPi4/Buster, running both Mystic and Doornode. Did you experience this, Ryan?

    Yep :) Good flag. For your batch files that you use to launch the doors, make sure the last line is

    exit

    and you should be good to go.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: monterey bbs (21:1/168)