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|    Martin Kazmaier to Jas Hud    |
|    32Bit GAC IBBS Games...    |
|    13 Feb 24 03:48:00    |
      MSGID: 1:340/1101 0130052a       REPLY: 7954.doorgame@1:103/705 2a303e8c       PID: THE READER V4.50 [freeware]       NOTE: IceEdit 2.35 K96741       TID: FastEcho 1.46.1 43288               JH> To: Martin Kazmaier        JH> Re: 32Bit GAC IBBS Games... By: Martin Kazmaier to Jas Hud on Mon Feb        JH> 12 2024 09:42 am                      JH> > JH> what doorgames? you mean GAC\vagabond software games?               JH> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^               JH> > Yes, I told you exactly what door games. The 32 bit versions of GAC        JH> > FreeCell, BlackJack and Wahoo!, which are IBBS games. They are indeed        JH> the        JH> > GAC/Vagabond door games. There are 32 bit versions included in the        JH> > archives:               JH> > gacbj230.zip, gacfc130.zip and gacwh130.zip               JH> > I can't get them to work, only the 16 bit versions. None of them pay        JH> any        JH> > attention to command line options and have to be ran as is in the        JH> dropfile        JH> > directory, so I can't send the -handle followed by the handle command        JH> line        JH> > option to the gac_bj32.exe (or replace bj with fc or wh) program        JH> > executables... Has anyone been able to get these to work?                      JH> they are pretty shitty old games, and i'm not sure they run correctly in        JH> 32bit in the telnet age. you can talk to deuce and see if he ever messed        JH> with them.               JH> i have however ran other opendoors doorgames. maybe the tourney trivia        JH> command lines would work for you.               JH> --BEGIN-- EleBBS: ------ Assuming c:\doors\DOORGAME is your DOORGAME        JH> directory, and c:\ele is your EleBBS directory, use a command        JH> line of:               JH> c:\doors\DOORGAME\DOORGAME32.exe -n *N -d c:\ele\NODE*N\door32.sys        JH> -socket *W               JH> In order for this door to work properly, you may need to lower the value        JH> for        JH> Modem >> Telnet Start Node# in ELCONFIG, since this door does not        JH> support node numbers higher than 99.               JH> WINDOWS 95/98/ME: Do *NOT* use a batch file to call this door. Doing        JH> so will not work on these operating systems. The door switches        JH> to its own directory upon start-up anyway; thus there is no need        JH> for a batch file!              I get unable to access serial port. I'm using -handle *W (as the gac docs       say) and -c pointing to the config file. -socket *W gave me the same error.              Thanks much, man! Has anyone been able to get these working? I'll stick       with 16 bit, but I like as many 32 bit doors as possible...              ---       Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp)       (ports 22, 23, 110, 21, 119) (ssh: login bbs password shsbbs)                     *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]       ---        * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (1:340/1101)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 90/1 104/115 105/81 106/201 114/706 709 710 711 712       SEEN-BY: 114/713 128/73 187 206 253 255 256 258 260 261 262 263 129/305       SEEN-BY: 135/225 153/7715 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 200       SEEN-BY: 229/206 307 317 400 426 428 470 550 664 700 266/512 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 291/111 300/6 320/219 322/757 340/0 101 200 400 800 1100       SEEN-BY: 340/1101 342/200 396/45 60 633/280 712/848 5020/400 5075/35       PATH: 340/1101 400 15/0 229/426           |
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