• Good door games on Mystic BBS/RPiOS?

    From chosanjuan@21:1/225 to All on Wed Feb 9 09:59:09 2022
    Just as the subject says. I was hoping to get one of the *Trader games going (I know that Tradewars 2000 has been a no-go for a very long time...) Maybe Yankee Trader? I see Avon has Galactic Dynasty running but I can't get it to compile, for the life of me. Anyone have any pointers?

    Also, does anyone remember Mech Wars?

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to chosanjuan on Wed Feb 9 16:21:12 2022
    Just as the subject says. I was hoping to get one of the *Trader games going ( >know that Tradewars 2000 has been a no-go for a very long time...)

    I have read but have no experience that Trade Wars works under dosemu2.

    Maybe Yanke Trader? I see Avon has Galactic Dynasty running but I can't get it to compile, for the life of me. Anyone have any pointers?

    I think Galactic Dynasty requires lua, do you have that installed?

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  • From fang-castro@21:3/112 to chosanjuan on Wed Feb 9 21:06:08 2022
    On 09 Feb 2022, chosanjuan said the following...

    Also, does anyone remember Mech Wars?

    I just downloaded Mech Wars a couple of days ago.. still haven't had time to play with it =( I was one of my favorites.

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  • From chosanjuan@21:1/225 to All on Thu Feb 10 22:36:10 2022
    Interesting! I think I found a great swolution since I'm running on a underpowered RPi Zero-W... I am using DoorParty and RLogin to their server. Once I got it all sorted, it seems pretty seamless! I've got Tradewars2002 and Mech Wars running in a small amount of time once I was approved.

    I'd highly suggest!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to chosanjuan on Mon Feb 14 09:07:00 2022
    chosanjuan wrote to All <=-

    Interesting! I think I found a great swolution since I'm running on a underpowered RPi Zero-W... I am using DoorParty and RLogin to their server. Once I got it all sorted, it seems pretty seamless! I've got Tradewars2002 and Mech Wars running in a small amount of time once I
    was approved.

    I'd highly suggest!

    Given the decrease in calls to BBSes, door servers are a great idea. I'm tempted to get rid of all of my local games and leave the server-based
    games. Local door games are the only 16-bit and dependency my BBS has; most everything else runs in the Synchronet Javascript environment.

    I *do* need to see if I can get DOSemu or DOSBOX to run my nodelist tools, though.


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