Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by rpeden » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 2:58 AM UTC

Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox
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Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by rpeden » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 5:21 AM UTC

This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available.

As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the classics like TradeWars 2002 and L.O.R.D.

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by gwilkes » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 5:49 AM UTC

rpeden wrote: post #2

This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available. As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the classics like TradeWars 2002 and L.O.R.D.

They never really went away. A web remake of LORD, Legend of the Green Dragon (LoGD), has at least 4000 monthly active users currently: https://github.com/lotgd/census

That census also contains some of the more popular servers you might play LoGD on. However, even LoGD is getting a bit old and development stopped a few years ago. There are two modern forks being worked on that I am aware of. The first gets rid of backward compatibility and is more ambitious: https://github.com/lotgd/core

The second is backwards compatible and allows all the many modules developed for LoGD to be used: https://github.com/stephenKise/Legend-of-the-Green-Dragon

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by stryk » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 5:54 AM UTC

rpeden wrote: post #2

This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available. As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the classics like TradeWars 2002 and L.O.R.D.

It sure does! Does anyone remember MUDs? Some of those boggled the mind with how creative some folks can be with text and symbols. Good times, great memories from back before being a nerd was en vogue.

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by NuSkooler » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:00 AM UTC

Don't forget that there are many active BBS's still around - and even new software being developed for nostalgic fun. Many include hook ups to BBSLink, DoorParty!, and a few other game servers that serve up tons of doors with large player bases.

See http://telnetbbsguide.com/ (seems to be being funky right now) or self plug! https://xibalba.l33t.codes/

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by th0ma5 » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 6:29 AM UTC

I remember "Doorway" which would hook up any old ANSI text game to a board. I wonder if that would still work.

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by NuSkooler » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:18 AM UTC

th0ma5 wrote: post #6

I remember "Doorway" which would hook up any old ANSI text game to a board. I wonder if that would still work.

I'm currently using DoorWay in DOSEMU under Linux native, so I'm sure it would work in this case

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by th0ma5 » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 7:34 AM UTC

NuSkooler wrote: post #7

th0ma5 wrote: post #6

I remember "Doorway" which would hook up any old ANSI text game to a board. I wonder if that would still work.

I'm currently using DoorWay in DOSEMU under Linux native, so I'm sure it would work in this case

cool!!!

Re: Running BBS Door Games on Windows 10 with GameSrv and DOSBox

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Post by fapjacks » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 8:11 AM UTC

stryk wrote: post #4

rpeden wrote: post #2

This brings back some nice memories. I was into the Toronto BBS scene pretty heavily back before public internet access became affordable and readily available. As much as I love modern games, I have to admit I sort of miss some of the classics like TradeWars 2002 and L.O.R.D.

It sure does! Does anyone remember MUDs? Some of those boggled the mind with how creative some folks can be with text and symbols. Good times, great memories from back before being a nerd was en vogue.

MajorMUD! Also, for anyone interested in MUME (Multi-Users in Middle Earth), a Tolkein-based MUD running since 1992, albeit via telnet and not as a BBS door game... It is still running, all these years later [0].

[0] http://mume.org

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Post by aepiepaey » Tue, Jan 23, 2018, 9:32 AM UTC

Relatedly, http://telehack.com/ is, to quote itself: a full multi-user simulation, including 25,000 hosts and BBS's from the early net, thousands of files from the era, a collection of adventure and IF games, a working BASIC interpreter with a library of programs to run, simulated historical users, and more.

Pretty fun to play around with for a bit.