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   Message 704 of 2,762   
   Torbjorn Mohn to Nicholas Boel   
   Re: Doors that work here..   
   04 Nov 13 10:52:28   
   
   >> Yes it is. BBBS for Windows is a 32 bit windows native program, hence it   
   >> will not work with DOS based doors running in a "dos box". It runs fine   
   >> on the local screen, but Windows will not let you pass that information   
   >> to the Telnet node. So the user will be "blind" :-(   
   > Is Synchronet and Mystic BBS softwares not 32 bit Windows native programs?   
   > There have not been issues running door games with either of those softwares   
   > for years.   
   > Maybe it is a BBBS issue then.   
      
   May be it has to do with the way BBBS handles doors? I don't know the   
   technical explanation to this, I'm just passing on the information that Kim   
   Heino has given me, and that made me give it up DOS doors on my system.   
      
   >> You MAY get it to work if you run an old DOS based BBBS verison on a 32   
   >> bit Windows platform. However BBBS for DOS is no longer compiled, and   
   >> you will be stuck with version 4.00, since that was the last DOS version   
   > Maybe that's specific to BBS and/or something Kim didn't want to add support   
   > for. All I know is there are other 32 bit native Windows softwares out there   
   > that run door games just fine, and /without/ a dos emulator of any kind.   
      
   I'm shure there are.... But there are no BBBS/NT boards doing that. Se my   
   reply above.   
      
   > This is why I said that for some BBBS sysop to be that interested in running   
   > dos door games on their system, I'm sure they can find a way -- unless   
   > support for it was not added into BBBS on purpose.   
      
   I wish that was the case. :-)   
      
   Torbjørn   
      
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