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  • Re: Old Door Games on Multiple Nodes

    From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Todd Holcomb on Fri Nov 6 19:04:30 2020
    On 06 Nov 2020, Todd Holcomb said the following...

    I'm new to Mystic and just started to try and get some of the old door gameslike Lemonade! up and running. Is there a way to get the older
    door gamesrunning from multiple nodes?

    Check out the windows_door_install.txt in the mystic\docs directory.

    I used this as a basis for a lot of my door installs. The TLDR; of it is that it's mostly the same for each door with some minor differences.

    Newer doors like Darkness 2.0 don't need netfoss whereas older doors like LORD do require it.

    The menu command you use is DD for older doors or D3 for newer door32.sys doors. For data you'd put something like:

    c:\mystic\netfoss\nf.bat /N%3 /H%0 c:\mystic\doors\lord\start.bat %3

    In this case we're using netfoss with LORD. %3 is the node number and %0 is the communications handle. You generally don't need %0 with newer door32.sys doors.

    For other doors where you need to specify the dropfile on the command line you can use a batch file or %P\DORINFO1.DEF


    Check out this URL for a list of all the menu commands:

    http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=menu_commands


    Jay

    ... Sure, I drink brake fluid. But I can stop anytime!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/23 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)
  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Todd Holcomb on Fri Nov 6 20:35:08 2020
    I'm new to Mystic and just started to try and get some of the old door games like Lemonade! up and running. Is there a way to get the older
    door games running from multiple nodes? For example, if I have 5 nodes, is there a variable to use in the door-
    starting batch file that could point it to the DORINFOx.DEF file in the temp 1-5 folders? Or am I stuck just running the game from one node?

    You didn't say what operating system you are using so I can't with too much detail but for what you're asking you can use %P which will be replaced by the path to drop files for that node (it will create dorinfo1.def, door.sys, and chain.txt for DOS doors).

    You can find a list of things that will be replaced on the command line and the various menu commands to run doors here:

    http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=menu_commands#external_doors

    So for example if you were logged into Node 1 and did:

    Command: DX
    Data: c:\doors\mydoor.exe %Pdoor.sys

    Mystic would create the drop files in that node's temp directory and the %P would be replaced with that path (including the slash):

    c:\doors\mydoor.exe c:\mystic\temp1\door.sys

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: Sector 7 | Mystic WHQ (1:129/215)