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  • Where do I get ntvdmx64

    From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Wednesday, June 05, 2024 22:21:04
    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: Digital Man to Rixter on Wed Jun 05 2024 01:18 pm


    No, dosbox and its forks are not useful for running BBS doorgames.

    well 'bbs dosbox' works pretty well. i've used it with some troublesome doorgames, too.

    file transfers suck usually.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to MRO on Thursday, June 06, 2024 10:55:49
    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Wed Jun 05 2024 10:21 pm

    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: Digital Man to Rixter on Wed Jun 05 2024 01:18 pm


    No, dosbox and its forks are not useful for running BBS doorgames.

    well 'bbs dosbox' works pretty well. i've used it with some troublesome doorgames, too.

    Cool. Care to provide a 'how-to' page for sysops that want to replicate that success?
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Thursday, June 06, 2024 18:25:30
    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Jun 06 2024 10:55 am


    well 'bbs dosbox' works pretty well. i've used it with some troublesome doorgames, too.

    Cool. Care to provide a 'how-to' page for sysops that want to replicate that success?

    People have been doing it, maybe since 2004 or 2006.

    Deuce had that bbs dosbox page and i zipped it and uploaded it to vert.
    I thought the page was down but it's back up.
    https://dosbox.bbsdev.net/

    Looks like I made the archive in 2010
    https://i.imgur.com/jBr8i6u.png

    I wouldn't recommend running a bbs on it if you want decent file transfers. With my experience there were problems with xfers.
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  • From Digital Man@VERT to MRO on Thursday, June 06, 2024 18:16:03
    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Thu Jun 06 2024 06:25 pm

    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Jun 06 2024 10:55 am


    well 'bbs dosbox' works pretty well. i've used it with some troublesome doorgames, too.

    Cool. Care to provide a 'how-to' page for sysops that want to replicate that success?

    People have been doing it, maybe since 2004 or 2006.

    Not for multinode doors.

    Deuce had that bbs dosbox page and i zipped it and uploaded it to vert.
    I thought the page was down but it's back up.
    https://dosbox.bbsdev.net/

    I don't think anyone's really still using dosbox for door games these days.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Digital Man on Thursday, June 06, 2024 21:15:26
    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Thu Jun 06 2024 06:16 pm

    replicate that success?

    People have been doing it, maybe since 2004 or 2006.

    Not for multinode doors.


    yeah that's always been the case but you can limit it to one person at a time.

    Also....COME ON NOW, MANNN. bbses aren't going to get many people trying to play the same doorgame at the same time.


    I don't think anyone's really still using dosbox for door games these days.

    unless you have some backdoor in synchronet you have no way of knowing that. i'm using it.

    I'd rather use it than that ntvdm hack that is one windows update away from being broken.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to phigan on Sunday, June 09, 2024 19:00:26
    Re: Where do I get ntvdmx64
    By: phigan to Digital Man on Sun Jun 09 2024 05:08 am

    This is just a theory as I have not seen or used that web interface, but

    why are you making a theory when you haven't seen it.

    to go to a new line, and started typing there? I think I have seen message editors get confused like that and just keep adding >'s to newly typed lines.

    what message editors did that?
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