Hi all,

Trying to add the Yankee Trader door. I can get it to start up, but
then it dumps out and back to the BBS, and if I look quickly enough I
see that it is attempting to "open COM 1". I've defined it to use
Fossil in SCFG, and the DORINFO1.DEF drop file as the docs say to do.

Does anybody have this running? If you do, would you mind posting your
SCFG config for it?

Oh, I'm using Linux/dosemu for this. Thanks in advance!



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Re: Yankee Trader door
By: Gamgee to All on Wed Jun 21 2023 07:37 pm

Hi all,

Trying to add the Yankee Trader door. I can get it to start up, but
then it dumps out and back to the BBS, and if I look quickly enough I
see that it is attempting to "open COM 1". I've defined it to use
Fossil in SCFG

Are you sure Yankee Trader support FOSSIL?

and the DORINFO1.DEF drop file as the docs say to do.

Which docs?

Does anybody have this running? If you do, would you mind posting your
SCFG config for it?

Oh, I'm using Linux/dosemu for this. Thanks in advance!

I have it running on Windows using UART emulation, but I don't think that helps you.
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Digital Man wrote to Gamgee <=-

Trying to add the Yankee Trader door. I can get it to start up, but
then it dumps out and back to the BBS, and if I look quickly enough I
see that it is attempting to "open COM 1". I've defined it to use
Fossil in SCFG

Are you sure Yankee Trader support FOSSIL?

No, I am not. Now that you mention it the sysop docs for it don't say anything about fossil, and specifically do say that it supports COM 1-4. Probably implies no fossil support right there.

and the DORINFO1.DEF drop file as the docs say to do.

Which docs?

The file 'YTSYSOP.DOC' which comes in the archive.

Does anybody have this running? If you do, would you mind posting your
SCFG config for it?

Oh, I'm using Linux/dosemu for this. Thanks in advance!

I have it running on Windows using UART emulation, but I don't
think that helps you.

Okay, thank you anyway, it could be that it won't run on a telnet system (under Linux). Gonna keep digging on it for a bit.



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Re: Yankee Trader door
By: Gamgee to All on Wed Jun 21 2023 07:37 pm

Trying to add the Yankee Trader door. I can get it to start up, but
then it dumps out and back to the BBS, and if I look quickly enough I
see that it is attempting to "open COM 1". I've defined it to use
Fossil in SCFG, and the DORINFO1.DEF drop file as the docs say to do.

Yankee Trader is notoriously FOSSIL-unfriendly. The behavior you're describing is typical.

Does anybody have this running? If you do, would you mind posting your SCFG config for it?

Yep - I wrote (and maintain) a fairly comprehensive setup guide for running this door game using DOSBox.

https://conchaos.synchro.net/yt_info.html

However...

Oh, I'm using Linux/dosemu for this. Thanks in advance!

... my setup guide is written with Windows in mind. You'll have to adapt it for your system since you're running Linux. DOSBox/DOSBox-X is cross-platform, so (in theory) it should work for you just fine. It may help to also refer to this page (portions of which I borrowed from heavily):

http://dosbox.bbsdev.net

Good luck! If you do manage to get it working, let me know the steps you took. I'd like to add a Linux subsection to the document.

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Codefenix wrote to Gamgee <=-

Trying to add the Yankee Trader door. I can get it to start up, but
then it dumps out and back to the BBS, and if I look quickly enough I
see that it is attempting to "open COM 1". I've defined it to use
Fossil in SCFG, and the DORINFO1.DEF drop file as the docs say to do.

Yankee Trader is notoriously FOSSIL-unfriendly. The behavior
you're describing is typical.

Does anybody have this running? If you do, would you mind posting your SCFG config for it?

Yep - I wrote (and maintain) a fairly comprehensive setup guide
for running this door game using DOSBox.

https://conchaos.synchro.net/yt_info.html

Wow, looks awesome!

However...

Oh, I'm using Linux/dosemu for this. Thanks in advance!

... my setup guide is written with Windows in mind. You'll have
to adapt it for your system since you're running Linux.
DOSBox/DOSBox-X is cross-platform, so (in theory) it should work
for you just fine. It may help to also refer to this page
(portions of which I borrowed from heavily):

http://dosbox.bbsdev.net

Good luck! If you do manage to get it working, let me know the
steps you took. I'd like to add a Linux subsection to the
document.

Okay, I should have some time this weekend to try this out. Thank you
very much for the info!!!


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