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  • Move to 64bit os and door compatability

    From klunk@21:1/124 to All on Saturday, November 15, 2025 21:09:12
    Hi everyone,
    If I were to move my bbs's host os to a 64bit version of windows, what are the options to keep running the old 16 bit game doors? Would this be easy or am I prodding a hornets nest?
    Laters
    Klunk :)

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to klunk on Saturday, November 15, 2025 14:13:06
    Re: Move to 64bit os and door compatability
    By: klunk to All on Sat Nov 15 2025 09:09 pm

    If I were to move my bbs's host os to a 64bit version of windows, what are the options to keep running the old 16 bit game doors? Would this be easy or am I prodding a hornets nest?

    There's a 'NTVDMx64' project which I've heard can get the 16-bit DOS VDM working in a 64-bit edition of Windows. I haven't gotten it fully working though, and I think it may be a bit finnicky, especially on Windows 11.

    I eventually decided to move my BBS to a 64-bit Linux distro. 16-bit DOS doors run decently well with dosemu or dosemu2 (at least with Synchronet).

    Nightfox
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  • From Accession@21:1/700 to ogg on Sunday, November 16, 2025 07:06:44
    Hey Ogg!

    On Fri, Nov 15 2025 17:44:25 -0600, you wrote:

    I just moved my BBS from Win 11 to Linux. One of the issues was
    never being able to get the 'NTVDMx64' system to work. I'm
    currently working through the learning curve that comes with getting
    "dos emulators" up and running.

    What's nice is that once you get the DOS emulator setup and one or two
    doors working, you don't have to touch the emulator again. You can just continue setting up the door games the same way you did the first couple (obviously the door setups themselves may differ, of course).

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.
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  • From Accession@21:1/700 to ogg on Sunday, November 16, 2025 08:32:38
    Hey ogg!

    On Sun, Nov 16 2025 08:11:02 -0600, you wrote:

    I would get it setup and "think" things were done. Next update, and
    it wouldn't work again. Over multiple updates, I just got tired of
    it. It felt like microsoft was screwing with it so I finally said
    enough.

    I was referring to whatever DOS emulator (dosemu/dosemu2) you may be trying to get used to on Linux. However, that very well may be the case with those, too. You have to keep an eye on what gets updated when new updates are pushed, or those have the chance of breaking, too.

    When using something like dosemu/dosemu2 where a lot of old doors that don't ever get updated rely on to run, it may be better to compile it from source, so that you would have to manually update it (and really /don't/ have to if it works) and can check what was done prior to updating, rather than allow the package manager to do it when it is pushed upstream.

    Regards,
    Nick

    ... Sarcasm: because beating people up is illegal.
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  • From klunk@21:1/124 to Nightfox on Sunday, November 16, 2025 17:22:46
    I eventually decided to move my BBS to a 64-bit Linux distro. 16-bit
    DOS doors run decently well with dosemu or dosemu2 (at least with Synchronet).

    I may need to pick at your knowledge if that's ok. I am comfortable using ubuntu and mint linux distros. Which distro do you use? I assume dosemu2 is a continuation of dosemu
    L8rz
    Klunk

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Who Dares Wins Amiga BBS (21:1/124)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to klunk on Sunday, November 16, 2025 13:47:46
    Re: Re: Move to 64bit os and door compatability
    By: klunk to Nightfox on Sun Nov 16 2025 05:22 pm

    I eventually decided to move my BBS to a 64-bit Linux distro. 16-bit
    DOS doors run decently well with dosemu or dosemu2 (at least with
    Synchronet).

    I may need to pick at your knowledge if that's ok. I am comfortable using ubuntu and mint linux distros. Which distro do you use? I assume dosemu2 is a continuation of dosemu

    I'm using Linux Mint and dosemu2.

    Nightfox
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