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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