Subj : Re: BBS platforms
To   : esc
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Sep 14 2022 09:03 am

  Re: Re: BBS platforms
  By: esc to Nightfox on Tue Sep 13 2022 11:21 pm

 es> I use linux - Ubuntu Server, to be exact. The reason I use Ubuntu Server
 es> is that I like the Debian 'apt' construct, upgrades, systemd (gasp!),
 es> etc., but I prefer the frequency at which Ubuntu is updated. 

Interesting..  I'm running my BBS on Linux Mint - which has apt and uses systemd.  Mint seems to be updated fairly frequently.  Mint is based on Ubuntu and Debian, so it shares a lot of things with those distros.

 es> DOSEMU works great, but not perfectly. There are some games, typically
 es> ones with a "roguelike" aspect to them like LORD2 and LORE, which for some
 es> reason don't work well for me in DigitalOcean VMs on DOSEMU. I can't
 es> reproduce the issue locally in DOSEMU but at the end of the day I simply
 es> decided to use the Win7 VM instead. 

I don't have LORE installed, though LORD2 seems to at least run in DOSEMU.

 es> Most of them are pretty lightweight but for some reason LORD versions
 es> prior to 4.0 really peg the CPU. *shrug* 

I hadn't paid a whole lot of attentino, but it seemed that a DOS VM did seem to use a significant percentage of the CPU, even in Windows.  DOSEMU in Linux seems to use a significant percentage of the CPU sometimes.

 es> Interestingly, I was also able to get TWGS to work with VNC on a headless
 es> VM. Now it runs on Win7, but at the time I was proud of myself, hehe. 

When I was using DOSEMU1, I set up TWGS in a Windows VM and used that since I wasn't yet able to run TW2002 in DOSEMU.  But one of the reasons I moved my BBS from Windows to the Linux host OS was so I could stop running a Windows VM on that machine, so I was a little frustrated..  I'm glad I was able to get DOSEMU2 working with Synchronet and that TW2002 runs with it.  Now I feel like I don't really need that Windows VM anymore.  But I do think it's a bummer I can no longer run Ashrella: Test of Time, which was a Win32 BBS door.

Nightfox
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