Subj : Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : claw
Date : Wed Jun 01 2022 07:55 pm

On 01 Jun 2022, Nightfox said the following...
 Ni> Recently I moved my BBS (running Synchronet) from Windows to Linux.  I
 Ni> had been running my BBS in a Windows virtual machine (on Linux) for a
 Ni> long time and wanted to move it to the Linux host OS so that I could
 Ni> stop running the Windows VM.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I'm using dosemu because Synchronet has built-in support for using
 Ni> dosemu to run DOS doors (and it happens fairly seamlessly so you don't
 Ni> have to explicitly put dosemu in the command line to run the door or
 Ni> anything).
 Ni> 
 Ni> Tradewars 2002 is not successfully running under dosemu though.  It
 Ni> shows a DPMI error and exits.  After searching online, it seems that's a
 Ni> fairly well known issue, and it seems to be a bug in dosemu and nobody
 Ni> has found a workaround.  I'm curious if anyone has gotten Tradewars 2002
 Ni> to run successfully in dosemu?  I'm a bit bummed because it's a fairly
 Ni> popular door game.
 Ni> 
 Ni> I know there's a dosemu2 available, but currently Synchronet only has
 Ni> support for the previous dosemu.  Currently I'm using dosemu
 Ni> 1.4.0.7-20130105 in Linux Mint.
 Ni> 
 Ni> Nightfox

What I can tell you is its quite the rabbit hold to go down.  There are people that take the time to get DPMI working but its very flaky and not reliable.  What I ended up doing was having a separate server just for Tradwars.  If you would like you can rlogon to my server if you want.  I don't have many people playing right now so wouldn't mind letting you take over one of the games.  If you interested you can find me on MRC and email me on my board Noverdu.com standard ports.  I'll be happy to help you get it setup.  Wouldn't mind seeing it get used more.  

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