Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
* Origin: CompuBBS | Ashburn VA | cfbbs.scinet-ftn.org (1:275/99)
Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)
I run a good 100+ rare games you won't find on most PC boards from the Commodore era and they hardly get played. I just got a load of Infocom text adventures now set up also. Now with loads and loads of PC boards up. I am sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users and less SysOps. :)
Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)
there was a huge downturn of users a year ago.
we haven't got them back or even new ones.
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Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)
Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)
I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.
How did you get Yankee Trader to run? I am able to get it to almost run, but it crashes shortly after the user enters the door. Seems like maybe it's super sensitive to CPU timing or something?
I have about 4 or 5 people who spend every waking hour playing them.. I even increased their daily time limit to like 3 or 4 hours so they could play.. A lot of the games are just fodder, but the big ones BRE, TW2002, LORD are still going strong at least on my Door Server..
Now if you start offering mental health therapy on your bbs, then it will be a complete package ;)
YT is notoriously bad with FOSSIL drivers. Has to do with how the author wrote the I/O routines. For that reason I use DOSBox-X to run it on my board. Running it by itself will almost always lead to the crashes you described. I wrote a lengthy write-up about my setup here:
https://conchaos.synchro.net/yt_info.html
It's been one of my top doors for the last two years, crash-free!
I have about 4 or 5 people who spend every waking hour playing them..
Now if you start offering mental health therapy on your bbs, then it
will be a complete package ;)
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/64)
Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works
well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).
I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.
How did you get Yankee Trader to run? I am able to get it to almost run, but i
crashes shortly after the user enters the door. Seems like maybe it's super se
itive to CPU timing or something?
I have regular players for my Yankee Trader doors. Someone was also playing LORD II but I have not seen them on lately.
That's cool. I'm not a fan of LORD II. That game takes patience!
That is on my DOS board -- Moe's Tavern. moetiki.ddns.net:27
I will visit! Thanks.
YT is notoriously bad with FOSSIL drivers. Has to do with how the author wrote the I/O routines. For that reason I use DOSBox-X to run it on my board. Running it by itself will almost always lead to the crashes you described. I wrote a lengthy write-up about my setup here:
It's been one of my top doors for the last two years, crash-free!
sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users and l SysOps. :)
This is the writeup I used to get it to run on my Synchro Door Server.. Works like a charm...
This is the writeup I used to get it to run on my Synchro Door Server Works like a charm...
I used this last night to configure YT on my board as well and it seems
to be working great.
Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).
arent there 2 versions of door.sys? can't remember, been like 20 years since i
ad to fuck around.
i've always used dorinfo1.def when all else fails.
Oh, and I am using a DORINFO drop file with it. I don't think it works well with DOOR.SYS (if at all).
arent there 2 versions of door.sys? can't remember, been like 20 years since i
ad to fuck around.
i've always used dorinfo1.def when all else fails.
I think so. I know there is DOOR.SYS and DOOR32.SYS, but there could be others still.
sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users a SysOps. :)
sure it will be hard to attract players. What we need is more users a SysOps. :)
The goal should be is promote content that big tech does not want us to talk about.
But that should be for PROMOTE_BBS.
Does anybody play em?
Or are we just settin em up? ;)
people us facebook instagram and snapchat because they like it.
they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.
people us facebook instagram and snapchat because they like it.
they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.
That might be part of it, but I think part of it is that social media has easy to use (usually) phone apps and they get hooked by all the likes/reactions they can generate. They can also cyber stalk their
favorite celebs, family members, co-workers, etc., in a manner that is legal.
the bottom line is what they use is just better than bbses.
they dont want to talk to a bunch of weirdos on bbses.
yup.
half of us never grew up and are old.
yup.
i'm functionally retarded probably.
yup! We're all on BBSs for the same idiotic reasons! ;)
i'm functionally retarded probably.
yup! We're all on BBSs for the same idiotic reasons! ;)
I don't think it's a functionally retarded issue but we're just all
craving to relive the "good ol days" of BBS when life was a hell
lot simpler and the world not as "strange" as the current 'version'.
I have a BBS not because of users; but just for the sake of reliving
the past. It's kinda like a safe-haven.
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