On Wed 5-Oct-2022 10:48p, Aaron Thomas@1:275/99.0 wrote:

Does anybody play em?

Or are we just settin em up? ;)

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I run a good 100+ rare games you won't find on most PC boards from the Commodore era and they hardly get played. I just got a load of Infocom text adventures now set up also. Now with loads and loads of PC boards up. I am sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users and less SysOps. :)

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To: Aaron Thomas
Re: Doors
By: Aaron Thomas to All on Wed Oct 05 2022 10:48 pm

Does anybody play em?

Or are we just settin em up? ;)

i'm kinda bored with them. also there's no more users anymore.
you need people to play games and make it fun.
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To: Gary McCulloch
Re: Re: Doors
By: Gary McCulloch to Aaron Thomas on Wed Oct 05 2022 10:24 pm

I run a good 100+ rare games you won't find on most PC boards from the Commodore era and they hardly get played. I just got a load of Infocom text adventures now set up also. Now with loads and loads of PC boards up. I am sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users and less SysOps. :)

there was a huge downturn of users a year ago.
we haven't got them back or even new ones.
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Does anybody play em?

Or are we just settin em up? ;)

I have a couple that I like to play. I'll play Galactic Dynasty and Trade Wars from time to time. Also enjoy playing Dominos or some of the old "board game" type doors. Just depends on my mood :)

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there was a huge downturn of users a year ago.
we haven't got them back or even new ones.
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No worries we just have to stick it out another 20 years or so for the BBS Nostalgia to kick back in! :)

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Does anybody play em?

Or are we just settin em up? ;)

I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also
playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.

That is on my DOS board -- Moe's Tavern. moetiki.ddns.net:27

On this board, someone was playing For Honour for a while, but they have
also not dropped by lately.


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On 05 Oct 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...

Does anybody play em?

Or are we just settin em up? ;)

I have about 4 or 5 people who spend every waking hour playing them.. I even increased their daily time limit to like 3 or 4 hours so they could play.. A lot of the games are just fodder, but the big ones BRE, TW2002, LORD are still going strong at least on my Door Server..

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I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.

How did you get Yankee Trader to run? I am able to get it to almost run, but it crashes shortly after the user enters the door. Seems like maybe it's super sensitive to CPU timing or something?

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Re: Re: Doors
By: Ryan Fantus to Mike Powell on Thu Oct 06 2022 05:26 pm

How did you get Yankee Trader to run? I am able to get it to almost run, but it crashes shortly after the user enters the door. Seems like maybe it's super sensitive to CPU timing or something?

YT is notoriously bad with FOSSIL drivers. Has to do with how the author wrote the I/O routines. For that reason I use DOSBox-X to run it on my board. Running it by itself will almost always lead to the crashes you described. I wrote a lengthy write-up about my setup here:

https://conchaos.synchro.net/yt_info.html

It's been one of my top doors for the last two years, crash-free!

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To: Aaron Thomas
Re: Re: Doors
By: Aaron Thomas to Al DeRosa on Fri Oct 07 2022 01:42 am

I have about 4 or 5 people who spend every waking hour playing them.. I even increased their daily time limit to like 3 or 4 hours so they could play.. A lot of the games are just fodder, but the big ones BRE, TW2002, LORD are still going strong at least on my Door Server..

Now if you start offering mental health therapy on your bbs, then it will be a complete package ;)

i have seen this before and in my experience it was 1 or 2 people using multiple accounts in doorgames. on tradewars they would play using a program that ran scripts. they could play it for a very long time.
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On 07 Oct 2022, Craig Hendricks said the following...

YT is notoriously bad with FOSSIL drivers. Has to do with how the author wrote the I/O routines. For that reason I use DOSBox-X to run it on my board. Running it by itself will almost always lead to the crashes you described. I wrote a lengthy write-up about my setup here:

https://conchaos.synchro.net/yt_info.html

It's been one of my top doors for the last two years, crash-free!

This is the writeup I used to get it to run on my Synchro Door Server.. Works like a charm...

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On 07 Oct 2022, Aaron Thomas said the following...

I have about 4 or 5 people who spend every waking hour playing them..

Now if you start offering mental health therapy on your bbs, then it
will be a complete package ;)

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LOL, that is something I need to work on.. LOL

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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: Doors
By: Mike Powell to RYAN FANTUS on Fri Oct 07 2022 05:16 pm

Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works
well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).

arent there 2 versions of door.sys? can't remember, been like 20 years since i had to fuck around.

i've always used dorinfo1.def when all else fails.
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I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.

How did you get Yankee Trader to run? I am able to get it to almost run, but i
crashes shortly after the user enters the door. Seems like maybe it's super se
itive to CPU timing or something?

I actually did not have any problems getting it to run just by following
the install instructions. One caveat... the system I am running it on is a
DOS native BBS. I have never tried it with Synchronet/linux.

Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works
well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).

Mike


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I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.

That's cool. I'm not a fan of LORD II. That game takes patience!

I prefer the original, but I did have a user that was into the sequel.

That is on my DOS board -- Moe's Tavern. moetiki.ddns.net:27

I will visit! Thanks.

You're welcome.

Mike


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YT is notoriously bad with FOSSIL drivers. Has to do with how the author wrote the I/O routines. For that reason I use DOSBox-X to run it on my board. Running it by itself will almost always lead to the crashes you described. I wrote a lengthy write-up about my setup here:

I found the howto which mentions DOSBox-X and got this to work as well. Now just to figure out how to play this thing...hehe

It's been one of my top doors for the last two years, crash-free!

Nice. I'll have to take some time this weekend to figure out the game mechanics.

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sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users and l SysOps. :)

AMEN.

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This is the writeup I used to get it to run on my Synchro Door Server.. Works like a charm...

I used this last night to configure YT on my board as well and it seems to be working great.

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On 07 Oct 2022, Ryan Fantus said the following...

This is the writeup I used to get it to run on my Synchro Door Server Works like a charm...

I used this last night to configure YT on my board as well and it seems
to be working great.

Same here, also setup Space Quest 2112 using the same setup and the game finally works right.

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Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).

arent there 2 versions of door.sys? can't remember, been like 20 years since i
ad to fuck around.

i've always used dorinfo1.def when all else fails.

I think so. I know there is DOOR.SYS and DOOR32.SYS, but there could be
others still.


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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: Doors
By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Sat Oct 08 2022 10:28 am

Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).

arent there 2 versions of door.sys? can't remember, been like 20 years since i
ad to fuck around.

i've always used dorinfo1.def when all else fails.

I think so. I know there is DOOR.SYS and DOOR32.SYS, but there could be others still.

i ran a wiki with all kinds of bbs information but i shut it down because the only ones that were using it were bots. there's a long and a short format.

rob swindell documented it here http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:door.sys
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sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users a SysOps. :)

The goal should be is promote content that big tech does not want us to talk about.
But that should be for PROMOTE_BBS.

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To: MATT MUNSON
Re: Re: Doors
By: MATT MUNSON to T.J. Mcmillen on Sat Oct 08 2022 05:26 pm

sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users a SysOps. :)

The goal should be is promote content that big tech does not want us to talk about.
But that should be for PROMOTE_BBS.

people us facebook instagram and snapchat because they like it.

they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.
half of us never grew up and are old.

i'm functionally retarded probably.
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Am 05.10.22 schrieb Aaron Thomas@1:275/99 in DOORGAMES:

Hallo Aaron,

Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)

I'm playing Global Backgammon in BBSlink regularly :)
Maybe I'll restart playing Global War there.

Regards,
Anna

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people us facebook instagram and snapchat because they like it.

they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.

That might be part of it, but I think part of it is that social media has
easy to use (usually) phone apps and they get hooked by all the
likes/reactions they can generate. They can also cyber stalk their
favorite celebs, family members, co-workers, etc., in a manner that is legal.


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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: Doors
By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Sun Oct 09 2022 11:05 am

people us facebook instagram and snapchat because they like it.

they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.

That might be part of it, but I think part of it is that social media has easy to use (usually) phone apps and they get hooked by all the likes/reactions they can generate. They can also cyber stalk their
favorite celebs, family members, co-workers, etc., in a manner that is legal.

the bottom line is what they use is just better than bbses.
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the bottom line is what they use is just better than bbses.

More addictive for sure, and it is better for what they use it for.


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they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.

yup.

half of us never grew up and are old.

yup.

i'm functionally retarded probably.

yup! We're all on BBSs for the same idiotic reasons! ;)

I don't think it's a functionally retarded issue but we're just all
craving to relive the "good ol days" of BBS when life was a hell
lot simpler and the world not as "strange" as the current 'version'.

I have a BBS not because of users; but just for the sake of reliving
the past. It's kinda like a safe-haven.

ed

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To: Edmund Wong
Re: Re: Doors
By: Edmund Wong to Aaron Thomas on Thu Oct 20 2022 12:22 am

i'm functionally retarded probably.

yup! We're all on BBSs for the same idiotic reasons! ;)

I don't think it's a functionally retarded issue but we're just all
craving to relive the "good ol days" of BBS when life was a hell
lot simpler and the world not as "strange" as the current 'version'.

I have a BBS not because of users; but just for the sake of reliving
the past. It's kinda like a safe-haven.

i went through all that already.

I lived the old days, then relived the good ole days.
and now we've been living the dead days for the past 2 years or so.

There certainly was strangeness and complications on bbses.
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