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    From Troy Tuttle@80:774/64 to All on Tue May 22 23:41:00 2018
    Hi all,

    Just wondering if any folks are running pure DOS setups for their BBS? I decided to make things a challenge and go this route with mine. So I'm running 6.22 with QEMM/Desqview on a P4 right now. Just one node right now but once I get things running smoothly I'll up it to two nodes. I'm using Portal of Power as a front-end with RA 2.62 for the BBS itself. I've got TCP/IP running so I use binkd for DOS to actually send and receive mail.

    So I figured if anyone has any good DOS/QEMM/Desqview tips might as well share'em.


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  • From NuSkooler@80:774/20 to Troy Tuttle on Thu Feb 20 23:43:57 2020

    On Thursday, February 20th Troy Tuttle was heard saying...
    Just wondering if any folks are running pure DOS setups for their BBS? I decided to make things a challenge and go this route with mine. So I'm running 6.22 with QEMM/Desqview on a P4 right now. Just one node right now but once I get things running smoothly I'll up it to two nodes. I'm using Portal of Power as a front-end with RA 2.62 for the BBS itself. I've got TCP/IP running so I use binkd for DOS to actually send and receive mail.
    So I figured if anyone has any good DOS/QEMM/Desqview tips might as well share'em.

    I think you're way far ahead of me for what I use QEMU for BBS-wise, but I do run some DOS doors under QEMU on my board.

    I have some of it documented here: https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/modding/local-doors.html

    I'd like to get around to putting up a sub-board on a physical DOS machine I have here maybe running Oblivion/2.


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  • From Jokker@80:505/0 to NuSkooler on Sat Feb 29 18:57:06 2020
    I think you're way far ahead of me for what I use QEMU for BBS-wise, but
    I do run some DOS doors under QEMU on my board.

    I have some of it documented here: https://nuskooler.github.io/enigma-bbs/modding/local-doors.html
    I'd like to get around to putting up a sub-board on a physical DOS
    machine I have here maybe running Oblivion/2.

    Yeah I'm a glutton for punishment because since that particular message
    things have changed quite a bit. :)

    Still running pure MSDOS with QEMM/DV but I've switched to using QuickBBS
    2.90 (had to reverse-engineer it to generate regkeys). I tried using JMAIL
    and cracked/wrote a keygen for it but it has problems with dates so I
    switched to FMAIL. I did update the source to binkd to build with
    DJGPP/WATT32 so now I have binkd 1.1 running in DOS instead of 0.9.8.
    Quickbbs has an absolutely shitty mail interface so I set about writing a new one, in the process I've been porting the OpenDoor SDK to DJGPP as well. Just finished up the FOSSIL routines and now I can write a library for GoldBase message format (Quickbbs) and "then" I can write a nice mail interface like Mystic has. All of this just because I want to simulate how I ran things back in the day. <LOL> I have learned a lot though, and honestly it's been fun learning all this stuff. Ah well back at it!

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