Subj : Re: Falcon's Eye is a pain in my eye
To   : Buckaroo Banzai
From : Generalram
Date : Mon May 07 2012 05:14 pm

 > Can any of you guys who have gotten FE up and running give me a hand here?
 > I've followed the serup instructions on the wiki and was able to get BRE
 > running smoothly (Man that brings back memories) and I've follwed the
 > instructions for Falcon's Eye but I can't get it to work.  I can run
 > Falcon's Eye locally in a CMD window and all's well but when I try and run
 > it through the BBS, I see the CMD window come up and then the system
 > freezes.
 > 
 > I'm running Synchronet 3.15b on a Windows 7 (32bit) system.
 > 
 > Thanks in advance.
 > 


Sure Buck I am trying to get games installed on my Linux Synchronet BBS but
read this:

http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:index

You might have to run the FOSSIL driver:

DOSXTRN.EXE

This 16-bit DOS component of the Synchronet FOSSIL driver for Windows (all
flavors) is called DOSXTRN.EXE and it is located in the Synchronet exec
directory. This program will not work with 64-bit versions of Windows since
Microsoft does not include a DOS virtual machine (NTVDM) with those versions
of Windows.

Since you run the 32 bit version you should be alright. Just run the 16 bit
FOSSIL driver DOSXTRN.EXE stated above and see if that fixes it.

You might be getting the Error 200 or divide by zero error on faster
processors:

Runtime error 200

Some 16-bit DOS programs (including many old doors) which were written and
compiled with Turbo Pascal will have a problem (divide by zero) running on
faster computers. The error will show itself upon execution of the door
something like this:

Runtime error 200 at 345A:0091

This is a well known problem (often referred to as “RTE200”) and there are
several programs which you can use to 'patch' the .EXE files to fix the
problem. Which patch works seems to depend upon the program in question.

    ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/util/patchcrt.zip

This is an entire page on the subject matter with links to several patching
programs.

You may need to patch the .EXE files before you can even install or setup the
door.

make sure you are using the proper BBS settings:

http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:fe

Name                       Falcons' Eye v1.06
Internal Code              FE
Start-up Directory         ../xtrn/fe
Command Line               fe
Clean-up Command Line
Execution Cost             None
Access Requirements
Execution Requirements
Multiple Concurrent Users  Yes
Intercept Standard I/O     No
Native (32-bit) Executable No
Modify User Data           No
Execute on Event           No
BBS Drop File Type     (R) Solar Realms    DOORFILE.SR
Place Drop File In         Start-Up Directory

Good luck I hope it fixes it for you. If anyone figures out how to configure
DOSEMU under Linux to run these doors, please let me know.

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