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    From Mr.Penguin@PENGUIN to All on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 22:27:12
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  • From Sarge@LOONIEIN to Mr.Penguin on Sunday, May 28, 2023 04:30:01
    Re: Add
    By: Mr.Penguin to All on Wed May 24 2023 10:27 pm


    Hello
    I am new to this synchronet bbs. I am trying to run some older door games, I can not seem to get any to work. All the pre installed games are fine.
    Is it that just the old 16 bit dos games will not run on 32 bit, even through syncronet bbs?
    I have patched the exe files with tppatch.
    the bbs system says I'm running the game but nothing happens, on either end. I.E. running in local mode.
    Just asking.
    Thanks

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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to Sarge on Sunday, May 28, 2023 11:03:52
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Sarge to Mr.Penguin on Sun May 28 2023 04:30 am

    Re: Add
    By: Mr.Penguin to All on Wed May 24 2023 10:27 pm


    Hello
    I am new to this synchronet bbs. I am trying to run some older door games, I can not seem to get any to work. All the pre installed games are fine.
    Is it that just the old 16 bit dos games will not run on 32 bit, even through syncronet bbs?
    I have patched the exe files with tppatch.
    the bbs system says I'm running the game but nothing happens, on either end. I.E. running in local mode.
    Just asking.
    Thanks


    what os are you using
    did you copy your fossil to windows\system32
    paste your configuration from scfg
    paste your configuration from the doorgame
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  • From Digital Man to Sarge on Sunday, May 28, 2023 12:39:22
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Sarge to Mr.Penguin on Sun May 28 2023 04:30 am

    Re: Add
    By: Mr.Penguin to All on Wed May 24 2023 10:27 pm


    Hello
    I am new to this synchronet bbs. I am trying to run some older door games, I can not seem to get any to work. All the pre installed games are fine.
    Is it that just the old 16 bit dos games will not run on 32 bit, even through syncronet bbs?
    I have patched the exe files with tppatch.
    the bbs system says I'm running the game but nothing happens, on either end. I.E. running in local mode.
    Just asking.

    This is the wrong message area for Synchronet support questions https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support

    Also read this:
    https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:index
    and this:
    https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win#win64
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  • From Sarge@LOONIEIN to MRO on Sunday, May 28, 2023 15:33:35
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: MRO to Sarge on Sun May 28 2023 11:03 am

    not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the local installed fossil in SBBS.

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  • From Sarge@LOONIEIN to MRO on Sunday, May 28, 2023 15:34:58
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: MRO to Sarge on Sun May 28 2023 11:03 am

    BTW Windows 7 32 bit

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  • From Sarge@LOONIEIN to MRO on Sunday, May 28, 2023 19:40:26
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:34 pm

    Well i did figure some things out.
    1) tppatch did not patch the exe. files like I thought, I thought the patch exe auto found and patched the files, nope have to do each one in cmd prompt. duh!
    2) the syncterm I am using I had for some reason redue the terminal, for ASCII. But I do thank you for your reply.
    I even got SRE to run on synchronet BBS.
    So after a lot of head pounding, I'm taking a break.

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  • From Sarge@LOONIEIN to Digital Man on Monday, May 29, 2023 07:05:13
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Digital Man to Sarge on Sun May 28 2023 12:39 pm

    Noted.

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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST to Sarge on Monday, May 29, 2023 14:10:35
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:33 pm

    not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the local installed fossil in SBBS.

    Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver. I typically use the Synchronet internal fossil driver and have never had to copy anything fossil-related out of the Synchronet directory.

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man to Nightfox on Monday, May 29, 2023 15:03:07
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Nightfox to Sarge on Mon May 29 2023 02:10 pm

    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:33 pm

    not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the local installed fossil in SBBS.

    Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.

    SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

    I typically use the Synchronet
    internal fossil driver and have never had to copy anything fossil-related out of the Synchronet directory.

    Yup, that installer does it for you. :-)
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to Nightfox on Monday, May 29, 2023 19:29:01
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Nightfox to Sarge on Mon May 29 2023 02:10 pm

    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:33 pm

    not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the local installed fossil in SBBS.

    Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver. I typically use the Synchronet

    isnt sbbsexec.dll the fossil?
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to Digital Man on Monday, May 29, 2023 19:30:18
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm


    SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

    i had no idea it did that.
    was it in a whatsnew file?
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  • From Digital Man to MRO on Monday, May 29, 2023 18:43:51
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon May 29 2023 07:30 pm

    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm


    SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

    i had no idea it did that.
    was it in a whatsnew file?

    Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer around the time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to Digital Man on Monday, May 29, 2023 21:49:51
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon May 29 2023 06:43 pm


    i had no idea it did that.
    was it in a whatsnew file?

    Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer around the time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.

    oh i was always telling people to copy their files into system32 to fix their issues, maybe they never used the installer and used the cvs.
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  • From Gamgee@PALANTIR to MRO on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 07:55:00
    MRO wrote to Digital Man <=-

    i had no idea it did that.
    was it in a whatsnew file?

    Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer around the time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.

    oh i was always telling people to copy their files into system32
    to fix their issues, maybe they never used the installer and used
    the cvs.

    Or maybe you're just clueless.

    Yup. I think that's it.



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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST to Digital Man on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 08:48:37
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm

    Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
    c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.

    SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

    Ah. I only ever ran the installer once when I first installed Synchronet in 2007. Over the years, I'd moved my BBS to different PCs (physical and virtual) several times, so I'd manually copy that DLL (I didn't think there would be a need to run the installer again).

    Nightfox

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  • From Digital Man to Nightfox on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 10:29:17
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue May 30 2023 08:48 am

    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm

    Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
    c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.

    SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

    Ah. I only ever ran the installer once when I first installed Synchronet in 2007. Over the years, I'd moved my BBS to different PCs (physical and virtual) several times, so I'd manually copy that DLL (I didn't think there would be a need to run the installer again).

    And that's correct, if you manually install or copy sbbs to a new Windows computer, you *may* have to copy the sbbsexec.dll to the Windows/System32 directory (depending on the version of Windows NTVDM).
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  • From Nightfox@DIGDIST to MRO on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 10:31:24
    Re: Running xtrn Games
    By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon May 29 2023 09:49 pm

    Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer
    around the time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.

    oh i was always telling people to copy their files into system32 to fix their issues, maybe they never used the installer and used the cvs.

    I only ever used the Synchronet installer once when I first installed Synchronet on Windows. I had moved my BBS to different systems after that but didn't use the installer when I did that. I'd manually copy that file.

    Nightfox

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  • From fusion@CFBBS to Gamgee on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 15:24:00
    On 30 May 2023, Gamgee said the following...

    Or maybe you're just clueless.

    http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win?s[]=dll

    The very first question, for a reason.

    "Did you copy SBBSEXEC.DLL to SYSTEM32?" would be my first suggestion too.

    Do you even like BBSes? You seem to spend most of your time upset lol.

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