• dosemu2

    From Morpheus@1:103/705 to All on Thu Sep 29 11:01:42 2022
    Okay, I've got doesemu2 working, but I still get an error /dev/kvm does not exist upon loading a door. I have looked into this, and I think it is because I am running on a server version of Linux (no gui), and dosemu is attempting to load something in the gui environment. Doors are functioning perfectly fine, but I get that error message at the launch each time.

    Does anyone know of a way to supress this message?

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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to Morpheus on Thu Sep 29 16:31:02 2022
    On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 11:01:42 -0400
    "Morpheus" <morpheus@VERT/MORPHEUS> wrote:
    Okay, I've got doesemu2 working, but I still get an error /dev/kvm
    does not exist upon loading a door. I have looked into this, and I
    think it is because I am running on a server version of Linux (no
    gui), and dosemu is attempting to load something in the gui
    environment. Doors are functioning perfectly fine, but I get that
    error message at the launch each time.

    Does anyone know of a way to supress this message?

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    Could do use the brute force method:
    mknod /dev/kvm c 10 232
    But good luck with that.
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  • From Morpheus@1:103/705 to Nelgin on Fri Sep 30 09:05:56 2022
    Re: Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to Morpheus on Thu Sep 29 2022 04:31 pm

    If you don't have /dev/kvm then it means you don't have virtualiztion enabled in your BIOS.

    It is enabled on the bare metal machine, but the machine is running Proxmox, which is running Ubuntu in a VM. Ubuntu is running dosemu2.

    I tested dosemu on a Linux install that included a GUI, and I didn't get that message. Only on the server install.

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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to Morpheus on Fri Sep 30 11:48:20 2022
    Re: Re: dosemu2
    By: Morpheus to Nelgin on Fri Sep 30 2022 09:05:56

    I tested dosemu on a Linux install that included a GUI, and I didn't get that message. Only on the server install.

    Well, did the GUI version have a /dev/kvm file?
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  • From Charles Blackburn@1:103/705 to Morpheus on Fri Sep 30 12:19:12 2022
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Morpheus to All on Thu Sep 29 2022 11:01:42

    Okay, I've got doesemu2 working, but I still get an error /dev/kvm does not exist upon loading a door. I have looked into
    this, and I think it is because I am running on a server version of Linux (no gui), and dosemu is attempting to load
    something in the gui environment. Doors are functioning perfectly fine, but I get that error message at the launch each
    time.
    Does anyone know of a way to supress this message?

    just ignore it it's fine.. you'll get that because you're not running in a console session and that you aren't running virtualised..

    it's fine and not an issue.

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  • From Charles Blackburn@1:103/705 to Morpheus on Fri Sep 30 19:33:30 2022
    Re: Re: dosemu2
    By: Morpheus to Nelgin on Fri Sep 30 2022 09:05:56


    Re: Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to Morpheus on Thu Sep 29 2022 04:31 pm

    If you don't have /dev/kvm then it means you don't have virtualiztion enabled in your BIOS.
    It is enabled on the bare metal machine, but the machine is running Proxmox, which is running Ubuntu in a VM. Ubuntu is
    running dosemu2.
    I tested dosemu on a Linux install that included a GUI, and I didn't get that message. Only on the server install.

    you will because it's in a virtual machine.

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  • From Havok@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 22:00:24 2023
    Re: Door help
    By: Nightfox to Havok on Mon Feb 13 2023 12:05 pm


    Hello

    If you would tell me the upside of running doseemu2 over dosemu?

    I see you can build it yourself, I was hoping for the real easy
    way out of just installing it by .deb.

    But anyway I would like to know about the upside.

    Thanks...


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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Havok on Tue Feb 21 09:37:26 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Havok to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 10:00 pm

    If you would tell me the upside of running doseemu2 over dosemu?

    TradeWars 2002 works with dosemu2.
    TradeWars 2002 doesn't seem to work with dosemu 1.x.

    I see you can build it yourself, I was hoping for the real easy
    way out of just installing it by .deb.

    You can also install dosemu2 via your package manager.

    Nightfox

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  • From Greg Youngblood@1:123/131 to Nightfox on Tue Feb 21 18:21:46 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nightfox to Havok on Tue Feb 21 2023 09:37 am

    You can also install dosemu2 via your package manager.

    Wow now I'll glad I wrote you, looks like I got something more to do
    tomorrow!

    Thanks, your always a big help!
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Greg Youngblood on Tue Feb 21 17:11:00 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Greg Youngblood to Nightfox on Tue Feb 21 2023 06:21 pm

    Wow now I'll glad I wrote you, looks like I got something more to do tomorrow!

    There's a page on the Synchronet wiki with some tips on setting up dosemu2 with Synchronet:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

    Nightfox

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  • From Greg Youngblood@1:123/131 to Nightfox on Tue Feb 21 21:22:54 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nightfox to Greg Youngblood on Tue Feb 21 2023 05:11 pm

    There's a page on the Synchronet wiki with some tips on setting up dosemu2 with Synchronet:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

    Hello Nightfox

    That will help, thanks for the information!
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  • From Havok@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Wed Feb 22 04:39:36 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nightfox to Greg Youngblood on Tue Feb 21 2023 05:11 pm

    There's a page on the Synchronet wiki with some tips on setting up dosemu2 with Synchronet:
    http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

    Thanks I'm glad you enjoy reading!
    Every little bit helps...


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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to All on Wed Jul 12 14:28:56 2023
    Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

    directory /sbbs/ctrl/.dosemu
    files dosemu.ini dosemu.conf external.bat

    scfg display of one of the dos program's configs.

    Any other related/useful files I may have forgotten.


    The wiki instructions aren't exactly working as advertised. I'l like to try and figure where I'm going wrong and make things a bit easier in future.

    Thanks,
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Nelgin on Wed Jul 12 16:51:34 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 12 2023 02:28 pm

    Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

    directory /sbbs/ctrl/.dosemu
    files dosemu.ini dosemu.conf external.bat

    scfg display of one of the dos program's configs.

    Any other related/useful files I may have forgotten.

    The wiki instructions aren't exactly working as advertised. I'l like to try and figure where I'm going wrong and make things a bit easier in future.

    I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

    Nightfox

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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Fri Jul 14 03:07:46 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nightfox to Nelgin on Wed Jul 12 2023 16:51:34

    I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

    Thank you. I that really helped. Along with the dosemu2 dev, I now have Tradewars, Yankee Trader, Space Quest and all my other stuff working in dosemu2 without all that blurb when starting up.

    I need to run a few more tests then I'll package it all up with instructions for anyone else who would like to give it a try.

    Thanks,
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Nelgin on Fri Jul 14 09:03:22 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Fri Jul 14 2023 03:07 am

    Thank you. I that really helped. Along with the dosemu2 dev, I now have Tradewars, Yankee Trader, Space Quest and all my other stuff working in dosemu2 without all that blurb when starting up.

    I need to run a few more tests then I'll package it all up with instructions for anyone else who would like to give it a try.

    I had updated the Synchronet wiki page for dosemu2 with the steps that allowed it to work for me. If there was something different/additional that helped you get it to work on your system, it might be good to add to the wiki page.

    One thing I've noticed is that after a few days, dosemu2 will fail, and it typically has been reporting an error about too many file handles being open. I've noticed that rebooting my BBS PC helps that, but I'd like to find a fix that doesn't require restarting my PC.

    Nightfox

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  • From Codefenix@1:103/705 to Nelgin on Fri Jul 14 12:12:18 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to Nightfox on Fri Jul 14 2023 03:07 am

    Thank you. I that really helped. Along with the dosemu2 dev, I now have Tradewars, Yankee Trader, Space Quest and all my other stuff working in dosemu2 without all that blurb when starting up.

    Have you tried playing Yankee Trader for more than a few minutes to see how long it runs without crashing? Genuinely curious.

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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to Codefenix on Fri Jul 14 16:09:10 2023
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Codefenix to Nelgin on Fri Jul 14 2023 12:12:18

    Have you tried playing Yankee Trader for more than a few minutes to see how long it runs without crashing? Genuinely curious.

    Just played for about 10 minutes. Seemed fine.
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  • From Mindless Automaton@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Sat Jul 15 19:41:32 2023
    On 7/12/2023 7:51 PM, Nightfox wrote:
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 12 2023 02:28 pm

    Ne> Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

    I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip


    Is there an advantage to using this? I just grabbed a deb package from
    an older ubuntu distro and it works on Mint 21.1.

    Thanks!

    Mindless Automaton

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Mindless Automaton on Sun Jul 16 07:58:36 2023
    Re: Re: dosemu2
    By: Mindless Automaton to Nightfox on Sat Jul 15 2023 07:41 pm

    Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the following:

    I put together a zip file of what I have:
    http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip

    Is there an advantage to using this?

    As opposed to what?

    If you're running your BBS on Linux, dosemu might be the only way to run DOS doors for your BBS.

    Nightfox

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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to All on Sun Jul 16 10:39:38 2023
    On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:41:33 -0400
    "Mindless Automaton" (VERT/ELDRITCH) <VERT/ELDRITCH!Mindless.Automaton@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    On 7/12/2023 7:51 PM, Nightfox wrote:
    Re: dosemu2
    By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 12 2023 02:28 pm

    Ne> Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the
    Ne> following:

    I put together a zip file of what I have: http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip


    Is there an advantage to using this? I just grabbed a deb package
    from an older ubuntu distro and it works on Mint 21.1.

    If it works for you, then no, not really.
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  • From Nelgin@1:103/705 to All on Sun Jul 16 10:40:32 2023
    On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 07:58:36 -0700
    "Nightfox" (VERT/DIGDIST) <VERT/DIGDIST!Nightfox@endofthelinebbs.com>
    wrote:

    Re: Re: dosemu2
    By: Mindless Automaton to Nightfox on Sat Jul 15 2023 07:41 pm

    Whoever got dosemu2 working, can you please send me the
    following:

    I put together a zip file of what I have:
    http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com:81/synchronet_stuff/dosemu.zip


    Is there an advantage to using this?

    As opposed to what?

    As opposed to his working system, I guess.
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