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    From Gaylen Hintz@1:288/35 to All on Fri Jan 6 15:19:42 2017
    Ok, coming back to Mystic again so I have a question. Does anyone here have the Ambrosia game installed. I'm now working on a 64 bit machine so I
    decided to try some door32.sys capable games or utils. When I set up the
    menu item to call it in... the system goes into never never land. Anyone
    out there have a call to this game that works like it's supposed to? Also,
    can you recomend any other door32.sys games or utils to work with Mystic.

    thanks!

    Greetings from a Conservative Republican and dammed proud of it!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
    * Origin: The Curmudgeon's place <curmudge.hopto.org> (1:288/35)
  • From Nicholas Boel@1:154/10 to Gaylen Hintz on Fri Jan 6 22:58:44 2017
    Hello Gaylen,

    On Fri Jan 06 2017 15:19:42, Gaylen Hintz wrote to All:

    Ok, coming back to Mystic again so I have a question. Does anyone
    here have the Ambrosia game installed. I'm now working on a 64 bit machine so I decided to try some door32.sys capable games or utils.
    When I set up the menu item to call it in... the system goes into
    never never land. Anyone out there have a call to this game that
    works like it's supposed to? Also, can you recomend any other
    door32.sys games or utils to work with Mystic.

    Unless those games are Win32 compatible (which I don't think they are, as they are still DOS executables) they still won't work on a 64bit Windows system unless you use a DOS emulator (ie: DOSBox), no matter if they use door32.sys or
    not.

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Gaylen Hintz@1:288/35 to Nicholas Boel on Sat Jan 7 10:40:32 2017
    Hello Gaylen,

    Hello Nicholas,

    Unless those games are Win32 compatible (which I don't think they are,
    as they are still DOS executables) they still won't work on a 64bit Windows system unless you use a DOS emulator (ie: DOSBox), no matter if they use door32.sys or not.

    I guess that makes sense, however I have found that Ambrosia,Jezebel and the GAC collection of door32.sys gamed do run in local mode. The instructions
    and or call to the doors in the docs for the game doesn't quite work. My
    guess is that if you can run it locally on a 64 bit system you should be able to make it work via Mystic as well. Unfortunately I've tried a few different things but none seem to work. :( The point being... if anyone has gotten any of these to work... a hint or two would be nice. :)

    thanks!

    Greetings from a Conservative Republican and dammed proud of it!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
    * Origin: The Curmudgeon's place <curmudge.hopto.org> (1:288/35)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Gaylen Hintz on Sat Jan 7 16:00:42 2017

    On 2017 Jan 07 10:40:32, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    I guess that makes sense, however I have found that Ambrosia,Jezebel
    and the GAC collection of door32.sys gamed do run in local mode. The instructions and or call to the doors in the docs for the game doesn't quite work. My guess is that if you can run it locally on a 64 bit
    system you should be able to make it work via Mystic as well. Unfortunately I've tried a few different things but none seem to work.
    :( The point being... if anyone has gotten any of these to work... a
    hint or two would be nice. :)

    i guess the first obvious question is what command lines have you tried in mystic?
    how do they compare to the command lines you use for local mode?

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  • From Gaylen Hintz@1:288/35 to mark lewis on Sat Jan 7 17:03:34 2017
    Hello Mark,

    i guess the first obvious question is what command lines have you tried
    in mystic?
    how do they compare to the command lines you use for local mode?

    Local mode was easy I just used the command abmlaunch.exe -l for local. I
    did get it to work with Mystic after a little trial and error. For posterity sake... I use the following command line.

    c:\mystic\games\ambv4\amblaunch.exe -n%3 -d c:\mystic\temp%3\door32.sys

    Also got doormud running but am still working on Jezebel. :)

    I'd love to get the GAC BlackJack and Wahoo games running. Just need to play around with them a bit more and maybe I can figure a way to make them work as they do work well in local mode. I get an error message that they can't find the config file when running though the board. :)

    Greetings from a Conservative Republican and dammed proud of it!

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
    * Origin: The Curmudgeon's place <curmudge.hopto.org> (1:288/35)
  • From Tony Master@1:218/530 to Gaylen Hintz on Mon Jan 9 06:57:26 2017

    On 01/06/17, Gaylen Hintz said the following...
    Ok, coming back to Mystic again so I have a question. Does anyone here have the Ambrosia game installed. I'm now working on a 64 bit machine
    so I decided to try some door32.sys capable games or utils. When I set
    up the menu item to call it in... the system goes into never never
    land. Anyone out there have a call to this game that works like it's supposed to? Also, can you recomend any other door32.sys games or utils to work with Mystic.

    yes

    the command would be abroshia -n%3 -handle %0 c:\path\to\your\door32.sys %0

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    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A31 (Windows)
    * Origin: --[!dreamland BBS dreamland.darktech.org (1:218/530)