is anyone running DOSEmu on 64bit linux? more specifically Ubuntu 18.04 Server? are there any gotchas i should look out for?

i remember when T installed it on her Mystic system that someone pointed us to a specific DOSEmu package that had been patched to work properly with BBS doors... T's Mystic is having problems and looks like a major upgrade is needed... so i'm thinking of just installing DOSEmu here and running the few 16bit DOS doors that my users are wanting... mainly the multinode Scrabble door...

thanks

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Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: waldo kitty to All on Sun Sep 30 2018 12:20 pm

is anyone running DOSEmu on 64bit linux? more specifically Ubuntu 18.04 Serv are there any gotchas i should look out for?

i remember when T installed it on her Mystic system that someone pointed us a specific DOSEmu package that had been patched to work properly with BBS doors... T's Mystic is having problems and looks like a major upgrade is needed... so i'm thinking of just installing DOSEmu here and running the few 16bit DOS doors that my users are wanting... mainly the multinode Scrabble door...

thanks

Just install it from the repository, follow the instructions in the Wiki. For me it just worked. I have lots of issues when I was using CentOS but when I switched to Ubuntu it all just worked.

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Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: Clifra to waldo kitty on Thu Oct 04 2018 07:50:14

is anyone running DOSEmu on 64bit linux? more specifically Ubuntu 18.04 Serv are there any gotchas i should look out for?

Just install it from the repository, follow the instructions in the Wiki. For me it just worked. I have lots of issues when I was using CentOS but when I switched to Ubuntu it all just worked.

i've done that but when trying to set up command.com as an xternal, i get the following...

External DOS programs are not yet supported in
Synchronet BBS for Linux Version 3.17

the wiki page leaves a bit to be desired... some of the xtrn configuration data in scfg has changed and it isn't clear what needs to be done... i don't know if the above is because i've done something wrong or if it is really accurate and DOSEmu support is not available in sbbs 3.17 from cvs...

my dosemu.bin is in /usr/bin which is the default directory AFAICT from the stuff i see... so with that, i have not specified anything for dosemu in sbbs.ini...

$ which dosemu.bin
/usr/bin/dosemu.bin

i do have a working dosemu when i type "dosemu" from the command prompt when logged in as the BBS user... that seems to load OK but the other drives as specified in the wiki are not available... i didn't expect them to be, though...

so i also copied the emusetup.bat file from the wiki page and did place it in my ctrl directory... i'm not sure if sbbs is actually picking it up and again, i don't see any evidence of the additional drives...

not sure which way to go here...

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Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: waldo kitty to Clifra on Sat Oct 06 2018 03:56 pm

Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: Clifra to waldo kitty on Thu Oct 04 2018 07:50:14

is anyone running DOSEmu on 64bit linux? more specifically Ubuntu 18.04 Serv are there any gotchas i should look out for?

Just install it from the repository, follow the instructions in the Wiki. For me it just worked. I have lots of issues when I was using CentOS but when I switched to Ubuntu it all just worked.

i've done that but when trying to set up command.com as an xternal, i get the following...

External DOS programs are not yet supported in
Synchronet BBS for Linux Version 3.17

That means you're running a version of SBBS built withOUT "USE_DOSEMU" defined.

the wiki page leaves a bit to be desired...

Which wiki page?

some of the xtrn configuration
data in scfg has changed and it isn't clear what needs to be done... i don't know if the above is because i've done something wrong or if it is really accurate and DOSEmu support is not available in sbbs 3.17 from cvs...

No, it's just the way you built it. The instructions for building with DOSEMU support (on Linux) is here: http://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix#getting_building


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Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: Digital Man to waldo kitty on Sat Oct 06 2018 19:29:16

External DOS programs are not yet supported in
Synchronet BBS for Linux Version 3.17

That means you're running a version of SBBS built withOUT "USE_DOSEMU" defined.

that should not be... my build and update scripts contain this...

BUILDOPTS="DEBUG=1 USEDOSEMU=1 INSTALL=CLASSIC SBBSDIR=/sbbs SBBSUSER=sbbs SBBSGROUP=sbbs"
[...]
make $BUILDOPTS install

oh wait! when was the underscore added? max and i haven't changed this part of the script in forever :sigh:

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Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: waldo kitty to Digital Man on Sun Oct 07 2018 08:36 am

Re: 64bit Ubuntu Server and DOSEmu
By: Digital Man to waldo kitty on Sat Oct 06 2018 19:29:16

External DOS programs are not yet supported in
Synchronet BBS for Linux Version 3.17

That means you're running a version of SBBS built withOUT "USE_DOSEMU" defined.

that should not be... my build and update scripts contain this...

BUILDOPTS="DEBUG=1 USEDOSEMU=1 INSTALL=CLASSIC SBBSDIR=/sbbs SBBSUSER=sbbs SBBSGROUP=sbbs"
[...]
make $BUILDOPTS install

oh wait! when was the underscore added? max and i haven't changed this part of the script in forever :sigh:

It's never not had the underscore. Anyway, glad you found it!

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On 2018 Oct 07 14:04:30, you wrote to waldo kitty:

oh wait! when was the underscore added? max and i haven't changed this
part of the script in forever :sigh:

It's never not had the underscore. Anyway, glad you found it!

no kidding! that's probably the root of the DOSEmu problems that max ran into when she was more active on her sbbs system... both of us missed it numerous times...

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