Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Sep 24 2017 09:51 am

are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?

Took a look at the TW2002 docs... it mentions the dpmi version, and talks about who should and should not use it, but it does not explain how you run which version. So, to answer you question, I have no idea which version it is. :)

read the file_id.diz

File Error (1) - (filename).DAT : Invalid Function

never got error before.
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Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sun Sep 24 2017 01:26 pm

So I went to BBSES.info and all that's there is you trashing your BBS.

"... Computer programmers don't byte, they just nybble a bit."

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Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Roadhog to MRO on Mon Sep 25 2017 08:50 am

Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sun Sep 24 2017 01:26 pm

So I went to BBSES.info and all that's there is you trashing your BBS.

that's not me, that's from a tv show

i took down most of bbses.info's services months ago. [wish i did it sooner]
i still provide hosting and honor the deals i made with providing people services.
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read the file_id.diz

The file_id.diz does not mention dpmi so I guess I am running the non-dpmi version.

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Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Mon Sep 25 2017 06:16 pm

read the file_id.diz

The file_id.diz does not mention dpmi so I guess I am running the non-dpmi version.

if it is a dpmi version you will have a D in the archive filename.
i suggest doing a bigbang on a compatible system and then copy the files over to your linux box.

also make sure you have everything setup correctly in the dos environment.
you could use dosbox to run it probably. dunno, i've only used dosbox to run problem doorgames in a windows environment.
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also make sure you have everything setup correctly in the dos environment.

I was wondering if anyone had any special settings they used. It was
running fine until I upgraded to the new release of debian linux. I
downgraded dosemu back to the previous version after a few programs gave me grief, though. Only TW kept behaving badly.

you could use dosbox to run it probably. dunno, i've only used dosbox to run problem doorgames in a windows environment.

Actually, dosbox is where I am getting the error message that I posted the other day. When it stops working in a dosemu session, it crashed the
session (the session closes) and I do not see the error message.

Since it is borked in both dosbox and dosemu, I wonder if it is not something underlying in how these dos emulators access the linux file system. Maybe something in the upgrade of the linux OS "underneath" is causing it.

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Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Tue Sep 26 2017 06:13 pm

also make sure you have everything setup correctly in the dos environment.

I was wondering if anyone had any special settings they used. It was running fine until I upgraded to the new release of debian linux. I downgraded dosemu back to the previous version after a few programs gave me grief, though. Only TW kept behaving badly.

Since it is borked in both dosbox and dosemu, I wonder if it is not something underlying in how these dos emulators access the linux file system. Maybe something in the upgrade of the linux OS "underneath" is causing it.

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maybe you just setup the game wrong. run it in a windows environment and see.

No I had it set up and working properly for years. It quit working when I upgraded to the most-recent stable release of debian.

The same setup still runs under OS/2, which is where it was originally.

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maybe you just setup the game wrong. run it in a windows environment and see.

No I had it set up and working properly for years. It quit working when I upgraded to the most-recent stable release of debian.

The same setup still runs under OS/2, which is where it was originally.

Maybe I'm lazy, I dreamed to make TWGS work on linux with wine or something. But for now it's just running in it's individual windows XT vm where only the 2002 and 2003 port open. It takes little resources so i like it like that.

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Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Roadhog to MRO on Mon Sep 25 2017 08:50 am

Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sun Sep 24 2017 01:26 pm

So I went to BBSES.info and all that's there is you trashing your BBS.

that's not me, that's from a tv show

i took down most of bbses.info's services months ago. [wish i did it sooner]
i still provide hosting and honor the deals i made with providing people services.

Is the torrent seedbox still running? That was a pretty cool service. I grabbed several torrents that looked useful at the time.

~KenDB3

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Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: KenDB3 to MRO on Sun Oct 29 2017 10:47 pm

Is the torrent seedbox still running? That was a pretty cool service. I grabbed several torrents that looked useful at the time.

if you go to bbstorrents you will see that it's not up :D
been down a long time.
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