Hey folks,

I imagine this is more broadly for any linux based BBS but since I use
mystic, I figured I'd post in this sub. Plus, I know little about socket descriptors and suspect that may be part of the issue here.

I'd like to experiment with getting a doorgame to work in dosbox (vs dosemu).

I can't get darklands working in dosemu. So...dosbox it is :)

I compiled dosbox version 0.73 which evidently doesn't have broken socket inheritance. I have
serial1 = nullmodem telnet:1 inhsocket:1
in my config.

I launch dosbox telling it about the socket (with -socket) and use Mystic to launch dosbox with the socket handle, %H or whatever it is. This, so far, has always been "10".

Now, I can't get anything to display on the BBS. If I export the display to
be that of my vnc x server, I can see the display there, but I can't see it
on the BBS.

Anyone have this working at all? Calling apam for help here, your howto on
the mystic wiki is out of date with dead links :P

Thanks!

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Anyone have this working at all? Calling apam for help here, your
howto on the mystic wiki is out of date with dead links :P

I have a howto on the mystic wiki? Hmm.

I think from memory socket inheritance doesn't work on mystic on Linux,
only stdio redirection.

You should be able to use a dosbox shim I wrote for magicka with mystic,


https://magickabbs.com/docs/configuration/doors/dos/dosbox.txt

Keep in mind that the shim uses a port for each door configured via
dosbox, so simultaneous nodes won't work (but then it wont work with
dosbox file locking anyway).

Sorry my documents not really great, the shim basically acts as a little
server listening for a connection on a port specified, dosbox is
configured to connect to said port and the shim relays the socket io via
stdio for the bbs.

Andrew

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I have a howto on the mystic wiki? Hmm.

Maybe someone (Avon?) did a writeup and just linked to your now defunct
github gists :)

I think from memory socket inheritance doesn't work on mystic on Linux, only stdio redirection.

This sounds about right. Bummer. I wonder if g00r00 is tracking that?

You should be able to use a dosbox shim I wrote for magicka with mystic,

Sweet deal, gonna check this out later. Thanks man!

Keep in mind that the shim uses a port for each door configured via dosbox, so simultaneous nodes won't work (but then it wont work with dosbox file locking anyway).

Yeah, gonna create a .inuse file and trigger whether or not the door can
launch based on its existence.

Sorry my documents not really great, the shim basically acts as a little server listening for a connection on a port specified, dosbox is configured to connect to said port and the shim relays the socket io via stdio for the bbs.

Sounds good to me. Much appreciated!

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Mystic to launch dosbox with the socket handle, %H or whatever it is. This, so far, has always been "10".

Ryan,

I user %0, the comm socket handle. Not sure about %H, but when I redirect IO
to the socket descriptor that's what I had to use.

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I user %0, the comm socket handle. Not sure about %H, but when I
redirect IO to the socket descriptor that's what I had to use.

Ok, thanks. I'll give that a shot :)

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On 22 Jan 2020, ryan said the following...

Hey folks,

I imagine this is more broadly for any linux based BBS but since I use mystic, I figured I'd post in this sub. Plus, I know little about socket descriptors and suspect that may be part of the issue here.

I'd like to experiment with getting a doorgame to work in dosbox (vs dosemu).

I can't get darklands working in dosemu. So...dosbox it is :)

Darklands, eh? Lemme see if I can get this working.

Are we talking about the one downloaded from darklands.cx?

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Darklands, eh? Lemme see if I can get this working.

Are we talking about the one downloaded from darklands.cx?

Yessir! And thanks.

Notice that there are multiple dos versions and a linux version. There's also
a link to the sources that include other binaries that you can try.

In fact, I've gotten the source to compile in freepascal on linux, but can't get the damn thing to work at all regardless. *shrug*. I'm not much of a
pascal guy in the first place.

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On 23 Jan 2020, ryan said the following...

Darklands, eh? Lemme see if I can get this working.

Are we talking about the one downloaded from darklands.cx?

Yessir! And thanks.

Yeah, I checked it out. The docs are super light on what to do with this
thing. I'll keep whacking at it though.

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