try using moslo on it. i got around issues with other doorgames and programs using it.

That program, and programs like it, tend to crash my dos sessions and/or cause carrier to drop over telnet.

are you sure? have you used it? I've used it and it doesnt cause any 'crash'.
whats the error code?

Positive. It exits the session completely so I don't have an error code. I
am not real concerned with it now as I was able to change the dosbox-x
cycle settings to apparently fix it.


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C'mon, who plays YT for hours... you? :)

My experience is that serious players will play it for quite a while when
they are first starting their game, but then spend much less time in the
door once they are maintaining their current game.

KNK, I vaguely remember that one. I played the hell out of Tradewars but cared
more about messaging and multinode chat at the time.

I think that Synchronet comes with a version of KNK. I have it installed
but have not played it much. Back when it came out, I spent a lot of time
in the TW2002 doors on my local boards but not so much these days.

Mike


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On 28 Aug 24 10:40:00, Mike Powell said the following to Nick Andre:

My experience is that serious players will play it for quite a while when they are first starting their game, but then spend much less time in the door once they are maintaining their current game.

I have at least a few regular callers who play the hell out of Lord, even the Inter-bbs leagues I do with Fido and TJ's system.

Was always a huge fan of Lord 2, its a real shame that one didn't take off because it really perfected multi-player simultaneous player movements etc.

I think that Synchronet comes with a version of KNK. I have it installed but have not played it much. Back when it came out, I spent a lot of time in the TW2002 doors on my local boards but not so much these days.

I stopped playing TW altogether when others started using those stupid helpers and scripts. To me that defeats the purpose of playing a game "fairly" and wheres the fun in having several people playing it, just to run scripts back and forth. When I started meeting people from Netmails, Echomail, message bases on other boards I used to call... that was far more fun.

Nick

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C'mon, who plays YT for hours... you? :)

Zharous. I don't even get YT .... hell, I don't get TW2002 either. Never did. Planets: TOES I liked ...

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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Wed Aug 28 2024 09:34 am

Positive. It exits the session completely so I don't have an error code. I am not real concerned with it now as I was able to change the dosbox-x
cycle settings to apparently fix it.

it's 2024. people really should create a function that will pause the screen after a program has ran. i would even put it in a batchfile after running a program.

guess we are shit out of luck on that one. thanks programmers!
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To: T.J. Mcmillen
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: T.J. Mcmillen to Nick Andre on Wed Aug 28 2024 06:07 pm

From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs

C'mon, who plays YT for hours... you? :)

Zharous. I don't even get YT .... hell, I don't get TW2002 either. Never did. Planets: TOES I liked ...

it's usually the real crazy ones that play the doorgames for hours.
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Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Nick Andre to T.J. Mcmillen on Tue Aug 27 2024 06:58 pm

Understandable. My maint.bat file is like 173 lines long for my 1200
door So fun, fun. Don't know what I'd do if I couldn't run it for all of
them. know the Usurper /maint does SUCK and it used to lockup all the
time. So I get it.

You're a door-slut...

Love the comment! I have to admit 1200 seems to be highest number I've ever heard. How do you even allow selection of that many games! Have a hundred
pages to switch through?

Which board is this on, I may login just to be amazed and check it out!

Thanks for sharing
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To: Amessyroom
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Amessyroom to Nick Andre on Wed Aug 28 2024 11:57 am

You're a door-slut...

Love the comment! I have to admit 1200 seems to be highest number I've

ever
heard. How do you even allow selection of that many games! Have a hundred pages to switch through?

Which board is this on, I may login just to be amazed and check it out!

installing a ton of doors is actually counter productive to user interaction in games. i tried to have my cake and eat it too by have a lot of games, but
then creating areas with the most popular ones.

the important thing is to not show the user like 20 pages of doorgames
to pick from.

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the important thing is to not show the user like 20 pages of doorgames
to pick from.

My personal view is I'd rather have a lot of users in a few doors that a few users in a lot of doors.

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My experience is that serious players will play it for quite a while when they are first starting their game, but then spend much less time in the door once they are maintaining their current game.

I have at least a few regular callers who play the hell out of Lord, even the Inter-bbs leagues I do with Fido and TJ's system.

Yeah, yours is about the only board where I can find anyone to fight with
in League 1.

I stopped playing TW altogether when others started using those stupid helpers
and scripts. To me that defeats the purpose of playing a game "fairly" and wheres the fun in having several people playing it, just to run scripts back and forth. When I started meeting people from Netmails, Echomail, message bases on other boards I used to call... that was far more fun.

Yeah, it seems that for some being able to play the game well is more fun while, for others, being able to "scam" the game is the fun part. I have
never been good enough at any of them to learn to scam them, so I guess I
am in the former camp.

Mike

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Positive. It exits the session completely so I don't have an error code. I am not real concerned with it now as I was able to change the dosbox-x cycle settings to apparently fix it.

it's 2024. people really should create a function that will pause the screen
after a program has ran. i would even put it in a batchfile after running a program.

You do realize that when a program crashes a dosemu/dosbox session, that
means the session exits without executing any remaining commands in
whatever batch file you are running, right?


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On 28 Aug 24 11:57:09, Amessyroom said the following to Nick Andre:

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Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Nick Andre to T.J. Mcmillen on Tue Aug 27 2024 06:58 pm

Understandable. My maint.bat file is like 173 lines long for my 1200
door So fun, fun. Don't know what I'd do if I couldn't run it for all
them. know the Usurper /maint does SUCK and it used to lockup all the
time. So I get it.

You're a door-slut...

Love the comment! I have to admit 1200 seems to be highest number I've ever heard. How do you even allow selection of that many games! Have a hundred pages to switch through?

Which board is this on, I may login just to be amazed and check it out!

Each letter is a Menu.

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I also have 178 shareware CDs online for around 89 gigs ... I'm a file slut too. :)

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On 29 Aug 24 10:12:00, Mike Powell said the following to Nick Andre:

Yeah, it seems that for some being able to play the game well is more fun while, for others, being able to "scam" the game is the fun part. I have never been good enough at any of them to learn to scam them, so I guess I am in the former camp.

Its interesting because the bank-transfer bug in Lord is an open secret... something to do with exceeding the value of a long-integer, beyond 2 billion in gold will cause a zero balance or unlimited funds or something stupid.

There are a few Lord instances running here and seems that nobody exploits it.

Nick

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On 29 Aug 24 15:14, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Amessyroom:

I also have 178 shareware CDs online for around 89 gigs ... I'm a file slut too. :)

I'm an Echomail slut with 100+ gig of messagebase nonsense.

Theres something very amusing about reading backlogs of mail that coincided with a major disaster or political event. "It will be Hillary by a landslide".

Nick

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with a major disaster or political event. "It will be Hillary by a landslide".

I remember that. Never have trusted polls again.

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with a major disaster or political event. "It will be Hillary by a landslid

HAHAHAHAHAHAHH

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To: digimaus
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: digimaus to Jas Hud on Thu Aug 29 2024 09:13 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.bbs

the important thing is to not show the user like 20 pages of doorgames to pick from.

My personal view is I'd rather have a lot of users in a few doors that a few users in a lot of doors.

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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Mike Powell to NICK ANDRE on Thu Aug 29 2024 10:12 am

message bases on other boards I used to call... that was far more fun.

Yeah, it seems that for some being able to play the game well is more fun while, for others, being able to "scam" the game is the fun part. I have never been good enough at any of them to learn to scam them, so I guess I
am in the former camp.

when i took over datastream there were users who would use those script programs and just be online for a long time. then they'd create other accounts and run those ones for a long time. It would use up lines and cpu resources.

regarding cheating, I had a user that loved lord. he asked how to cheat in the igms and i told him. it took away all the fun for him when he could be a god.
he stopped playing shortly after that.
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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Mike Powell to JAS HUD on Thu Aug 29 2024 10:18 am

You do realize that when a program crashes a dosemu/dosbox session, that means the session exits without executing any remaining commands in
whatever batch file you are running, right?

I'm not sure what error you are reporting.
and crashing is such a vague word.

I thought you said your program was dying and dosbox would then quit.
you should check the dosbox logs and see if it captures it.

furthermore if you have problems with programs that other people don't have issues with, check your memory and hardware. those can be gremlins.
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seth able gave great advice on doorgames, which is keep it to a select few.

I have a few doors, not including my own, that I'm running. Scrabble is a popular one along with LORD. I have a few other doors that I like but
that's it. 90% of the people that call my board just use it for message
areas, a few file areas, and that's it. I'm really mainly doing this for my own pleasure these days, honestly, and a few close friends whom I've known
for decades.

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Yeah, it seems that for some being able to play the game well is more fun while, for others, being able to "scam" the game is the fun part. I have never been good enough at any of them to learn to scam them, so I guess I am in the former camp.

Its interesting because the bank-transfer bug in Lord is an open secret... something to do with exceeding the value of a long-integer, beyond 2 billion in gold will cause a zero balance or unlimited funds or something stupid.

There are a few Lord instances running here and seems that nobody exploits it.

In 4.07 and/or 08, that bug was fixed and the program won't let you put any more money in the bank than that. I am running 3.55 here for League 1 and
it appears it will allow you to have more than that but has not done
anything stupid that I can tell (yet, anyway! :D).

Mike


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Hello Mike!

30 Aug 24 10:11, you wrote to NICK ANDRE:

In 4.07 and/or 08, that bug was fixed and the program won't let you
put any more money in the bank than that. I am running 3.55 here for League 1 and it appears it will allow you to have more than that but
has not done anything stupid that I can tell (yet, anyway! :D).

I know that doesn't work in 4.08 beta DOS (which is what I am running under DOSemu on Leeenuux).

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To: Mike Powell
Re: Re: DOSBOX-X vs. dosemu i
By: Mike Powell to NICK ANDRE on Fri Aug 30 2024 10:11 am

In 4.07 and/or 08, that bug was fixed and the program won't let you put any more money in the bank than that. I am running 3.55 here for League 1 and it appears it will allow you to have more than that but has not done anything stupid that I can tell (yet, anyway! :D).

you can always run an addon that will police that kind of stuff.
I used to run them before the door would run each time.
make backups, though.
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