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  • Re: Move to 64bit os and door compatability

    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to klunk on Sun Nov 16 13:47:46 2025
    Re: Re: Move to 64bit os and door compatability
    By: klunk to Nightfox on Sun Nov 16 2025 05:22 pm

    I eventually decided to move my BBS to a 64-bit Linux distro. 16-bit
    DOS doors run decently well with dosemu or dosemu2 (at least with
    Synchronet).

    I may need to pick at your knowledge if that's ok. I am comfortable using ubuntu and mint linux distros. Which distro do you use? I assume dosemu2 is a continuation of dosemu

    I'm using Linux Mint and dosemu2.

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  • From ogg@21:2/147 to Nightfox on Sat Nov 15 17:44:25 2025
    If I were to move my bbs's host os to a 64bit version of windows, what

    the options to keep running the old 16 bit game doors? Would this be

    or am I prodding a hornets nest?

    There's a 'NTVDMx64' project which I've heard can get the 16-bit DOS VDM working in a 64-bit edition of Windows. I haven't gotten it fully
    working though, and I think it may be a bit finnicky, especially on Windows 11.

    I eventually decided to move my BBS to a 64-bit Linux distro. 16-bit
    DOS doors run decently well with dosemu or dosemu2 (at least with Synchronet).

    I just moved my BBS from Win 11 to Linux. One of the issues was never being able to get the 'NTVDMx64' system to work. I'm currently working through the learning curve that comes with getting "dos emulators" up and running.

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