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     Re: Best Beginner Door Game(s   
     By: Daryl Stout to Rob Swindell on Tue Jul 20 2021 07:19 am   
      
    > Rob,   
    >   
    >  RS> Trade Wars, or any other door for that matter, should never "have a   
    >  RS> fossil driver with it"; the system/sysop must provide a compatible   
    >  RS> FOSSIL driver. I'm not clear what you're trying to convey here. --   
    >   
    >   The way I understand it, if you don't have a fossil driver with it,   
    > it can't be run under telnet   
      
   Door games don't come with FOSSIL drivers. A door game can *use* a FOSSIL   
   driver, but it would never come with one.   
      
    > , unless:   
    >   
    > 1) You're running Synchronet with the DOSXTRN utility.   
      
   DOSXTRN.EXE *is* a FOSSIL driver (for Win32). It's also a virtual UART driver.   
      
    > 2) You use the Doorway program and a generic dropfile for the door.   
      
   There are several ways in which a door game can send output to and accept   
   input from a user (without relying on "the Doorway program") - FOSSIL is just   
   one of them.   
      
    >   Since I'm running Synchronet, I can run fossil or non-fossil doors,   
    > setting them up like a regular door.   
      
   Correct, because Synchronet for Windows (not Linux) supports a virtual UART   
   (COM port) within its virtual UART/FOSSIL driver (DOSXTRN.EXE). Since you're   
   running Synchronet, you can also run TCP/socket doors, stdio doors, and DOS   
   console (int21h/29h) doors. For details, see https://wiki.synchr   
   .net/howto:door:index   
      
    > When I ran Virtual Advanced, I   
    > had to set up a generic dropfile and use the Doorway program, with   
    > DOOR.SYS as the dropfile, if the door didn't support DORINFO1.DEF --   
    > the late Tim Cornett developed a VScript that'd convert the comport   
    > to com0, and combined with Doorway, you could run it under Virtual   
    > Advanced (VADV32).   
      
   Okay.    
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