Subj : Re: Renegade and doors
To   : Jim Haight
From : Nick Andre
Date : Sun Feb 28 2021 05:18 am

On 27 Feb 21  18:19:05, Jim Haight said the following to All:

JH> OK! I have to laugh because I cannot seem to figure out the routine to call
JH> doors. Since I've done this with menu based systems before, I configured LO
JH> in the menu and dabbled with calling start.bat in the game directory and/or
JH> tried a lord.bat in the bbs directory. Nothing has worked yet. I did this
JH> successfully like 15 years ago but my question now is.. do you need to init
JH> a fossil driver like netfoss similar to Mystic or Ele? Or are you people st
JH> using fossils like BNU?
JH> 
JH> I am running the bbs under windows XP using Net2BBS as my telnet front end.

If you are using Net2BBS then presumably you're using NetFoss, which would
already be emulating the Fossil driver necessary for Renegade and subsequently
all of your door games to run. Manipulating Fossil stuff is completely
unnecessary unless you plan to offer a dialup-line.

The problem is likely in how you are calling Lord. That game expects a 
dropfile to exist at a path you define; and Renegade only creates dropfiles in
directories you define.

On this system that game is called as:

Menu filename: ONLINE
Command #3 of 56

1. Long descript :(1) LORD - Legend of the Red Dragon
2. Short descript:(1) LORD
3. Menu keys     :1
4. ACS required  :""
5. Cmdkeys       :DG
6. Options       :doors\lord\start.bat (percent N)
   Flags         :None
Q. Quit

DG meaning Renegade should write a DOOR.SYS dropfile and Percent-N passing the
current node-number. You must also define the temporary directory in System
Config-Modem/Node as thats where the dropfile is written. Then tell Lordcfg to
reach the appropriate directories. 

The first line of Start.bat actually must change the directory to
\renegade\doors\lord since by default the working directory is \renegade.
Renegade and Lord must also be configured to "lock" the COM port at a set 
rate, lets say 57600.

Nick

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