BBS doors on Windows 10

[dustinnulf]

Hi all,

I just set up Enigma on a Windows10 machine. Looks cool! I can telnet into using "localhost"

Now I'd like to install a Door game; however, most documentation found is for Unix systems. Is there an example for Windows somewhere? I probably need DOSBox and a fossil driver... an example would be awesome.

Cheers,
Dustin

[NuSkooler]

Hi @dustinnulf ! Take a look here https://github.com/NuSkooler/enigma-bbs/blob/master/docs/modding/local-doors.md

For older DOS doors, you'll need a emulator that can bridge stdio to a COM port. DOSEMU does this, and I believe you can now do this with DosBox-X's latest release.

To run native Windows doors (e.g. 32bit doors with DOOR32.SYS support) you need something like Bivrost! also covered in the docs above.

[ellisgl]

How feasible would it to be to run something like LoRD 2 w/ multiplayer with this setup? I believe it uses SHARE.EXE to do file locking.

[NuSkooler]

@ellisgl Which setup? There are a number of ways. If you use DOSEMU for example, you get "SHARE" for free.

[ellisgl]

With dosbox-x

[NuSkooler]

@ellisgl Don't see why not. Map multiple serial -> COM1, COM2, ..., load up SHARE.EXE, and try it out 🎲