MajorBBS 6.25 and DOOR games

[E. Nusbaum]

I'm currently running MajorBBS 6.25 in DOS with Vircom Major TCP/IP add-on
for telnet support.

I'm curious if anyone's been able to get any classic DOOR.SYS games to work
in MajorBBS (or WG). I've been reading up on the MajorBBS documentation and
it seems you'd be able to using GHost (which comes with MBBS/WG).

Any thoughts or experiences? I'd love to get games like LORD2, BRE and
whatnot up on my board.

- E. Nusbaum

[Corey]

To: E. Nusbaum
Re: MajorBBS 6.25 and DOOR games
By: E. Nusbaum to alt.bbs.majorbbs on Thu Sep 02 2004 02:43 pm

Post by E. Nusbaum
I'm currently running MajorBBS 6.25 in DOS with Vircom Major TCP/IP add-on
for telnet support.
I'm curious if anyone's been able to get any classic DOOR.SYS games to work
in MajorBBS (or WG). I've been reading up on the MajorBBS documentation and
it seems you'd be able to using GHost (which comes with MBBS/WG).
Any thoughts or experiences? I'd love to get games like LORD2, BRE and
whatnot up on my board.
- E. Nusbaum

you can use ghost, but it is just a old serial linkup between another computer
and the main one and I heard it was really slow, even for back when it was
written. the mbbs it self can't run doors because it can't shell out.
doors are for multinode systems and mbbs was a multiline system.

Corey

Help! I've fallen and... Hey! nice carpet!

[brad]

check out these sites....you can use a modern freeware bbs and mod it to
replace the 1 user per 1 computer only ghost game system gcom was using on a
sep dos 6.22 machine with a bbs pkg called sychronet www.synchro.net ..you
can also grab other features for use with your mbbs or wg menu system from
same system....you can get a mod to make it look like a gcomm worldgroup
menu system ..and thus keep the feel of worldgroup..but allowing you to run
dos 6.22 door type games on a 32bit windows me,nt,xp etc cpu..in multinode
mode (ie. 10 plus users or more at a time in same door game) he has a 32bit
fossil driver that allows this with synchronet..anyway the mod
(menu..type....game server mod) to allow you make a www.synchro.net setup
look and act like a worldgroup game (mostly menu) game server...is located
at www.doormud.com he has the directions and tweaks to do so...it is the
only way to fly...also this pkg runs the NEW 32bit fossil door games being
written now as well

anyway...its a neat solution to salvaging doors etc...another resource is
the bbs archives...the link escapes me ..do a google...they have piece of
software called game serv?...that is also actively being supported and also
does much of the same above...

last point the www.synchro.net stuff has a pretty good USENET option..not
the stuff that wg used that you had to contact the isp to setup or
whatever...so that is a good way to get usenet and fido to your old
worldgroup setup..also www.synchro.net software has built in rlogin and
tcp/ip etc etc...so may give some people with major bbs and no internet
connectivity a way to get some use out of their non-inet packages

anyway..my 2c worth prob better solutions but that was how i used to do it

brad
former sysop www.lost-gonzo.com (still down..dang it)

Post by E. Nusbaum
I'm currently running MajorBBS 6.25 in DOS with Vircom Major TCP/IP add-on
for telnet support.
I'm curious if anyone's been able to get any classic DOOR.SYS games to work
in MajorBBS (or WG). I've been reading up on the MajorBBS documentation and
it seems you'd be able to using GHost (which comes with MBBS/WG).
Any thoughts or experiences? I'd love to get games like LORD2, BRE and
whatnot up on my board.
- E. Nusbaum

[E. Nusbaum]

Well, the whole reason for my running MBBS was to support MajorBBS games
like Tele-Arena and MajorMUD, which wont run on other apps such as GameSrv
or synchronet.

Do you know how to setup GHost on Major to support drop file door games??

- E. Nusbaum

[Stewie Griffin]

Post by E. Nusbaum
Well, the whole reason for my running MBBS was to support MajorBBS games
like Tele-Arena and MajorMUD, which wont run on other apps such as GameSrv
or synchronet.
Do you know how to setup GHost on Major to support drop file door games??
- E. Nusbaum

What Brad was talking about was using Synchronet as a door - Synchro can
be setup to be run as a door better than most BBSes - it has full TCP/IP
support, so instead of using GHost, you setup Synchronet to listen to a
telnet or rlogin from Major BBS/WG (Both Major TCP/IP and ICO support
outbound telnet/rlogin) - and have people login to synchronet and
present them with a menu of doors.

I should write a program that adds user accounts to synchronet upon
signup and changes password when a sysop or user changes their password,
so that the rlogin can be transparent and the door games menu can appear
to be another menu...