I run a ton of doorgames and i have goofy stuff like doorway launching
them or dosbox. I haven't had issues with ntvdm.

I had that kind of stuff going on when I ran Ezycom too. It was stable.
Now with Talisman everything is windows native except the door games.

|09S|11hawn


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On 06 Jan 24 10:02:00, Kurt Weiske said the following to Jas Hud:

windows 10 is not bloated and can run a bbs just fine.

Isn't there a "lite" distribution out there? I used to run TinyXP, it
was just enough XP to run a BBS, idled in 200 megs of RAM.

Yes... LTSC.

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

Isn't there a "lite" distribution out there? I used to run TinyXP, it
was just enough XP to run a BBS, idled in 200 megs of RAM.

Yes... LTSC.

I meant even "lite"er. TinyXP was missing Internet Explorer and all of
the other built-in apps.





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To: Kurt Weiske
Re: Re: sed 4.9+ for Win32?
By: Kurt Weiske to Jas Hud on Sat Jan 06 2024 10:02 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.comp

Jas Hud wrote to Shurato <=-

windows 10 is not bloated and can run a bbs just fine.

Isn't there a "lite" distribution out there? I used to run TinyXP, it
was just enough XP to run a BBS, idled in 200 megs of RAM.

yeah they still make stripped down versions but stuff can be broken.
you can really just run windows 10 with 2 gigs of ram probably.

microsoft says min req is 2gb for win 10 64bit, 1gb for 32bit.
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On 07 Jan 24 08:02:00, Kurt Weiske said the following to Nick Andre:

Isn't there a "lite" distribution out there? I used to run TinyXP, it was just enough XP to run a BBS, idled in 200 megs of RAM.

Yes... LTSC.

I meant even "lite"er. TinyXP was missing Internet Explorer and all of
the other built-in apps.

LTSC is probably as light as you will get. If your stuff is all console based and nothing 16-bit then maybe run Server Core?

Nick

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To: Kurt Weiske
Re: Re: sed 4.9+ for Win32?
By: Kurt Weiske to Nick Andre on Sun Jan 07 2024 08:02 am

Yes... LTSC.

I meant even "lite"er. TinyXP was missing Internet Explorer and all of
the other built-in apps.

well it was gutted. it had services removed.
I don't think THAT was even necessary because xp runs with very little resources as well. i think it got the attention of people who were hoping
for something they really didn't need.

i ran tinyxp and tiny7 before. then i figured fuck it, run the real thing. it's less broken and the requirements are low.
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Jas Hud wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

yeah they still make stripped down versions but stuff can be broken.
you can really just run windows 10 with 2 gigs of ram probably.

I ran my BBS on a mobile Core 2 duo and 3GB nicely on 32-bit Windows.
Ran a Shoutcast station, too.



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To: Kurt Weiske
Re: Re: sed 4.9+ for Win32?
By: Kurt Weiske to Jas Hud on Mon Jan 08 2024 06:20 am

From Newsgroup: micronet.comp

Jas Hud wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

yeah they still make stripped down versions but stuff can be broken. you can really just run windows 10 with 2 gigs of ram probably.

I ran my BBS on a mobile Core 2 duo and 3GB nicely on 32-bit Windows.
Ran a Shoutcast station, too.

years ago i ran windows 7 on a netbook with like 1gig of memory and i was playing wow (warcraft) at work with the settings cranked down and tethered to my phone. it worked decent but i wouldn't do any raiding.
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Jas Hud wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

i ran tinyxp and tiny7 before. then i figured fuck it, run the real thing. it's less broken and the requirements are low.

Depends on what you have. I ran the BBS on a 1 ghz Celeron with 512 MB
of RAM on it, and it ran surprisingly well. This was a HP Pavilion PC
from 1999-2000, the only real limitation with it was the HD interface
maxxed out at ATA-33.




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On 04 Jan 24 09:50:00, Shurato said the following to Sean Dennis:

Doesn't Support Windows 7. Win 10 is too bloated for just a BBS os.

My board has remained on XP for decades now for that reason and how NTVDM
became broken either in Vista or 7. I can't prove it but am convinced it is.

Weird stuff like some doors crashing that never crashed before, mailer
inexplicably closing... none of these problems happen on the XP instance.

Nick

Interesting, im running Searchlight (1999 - 16bit) under 32bit Windows 10 on
64 bit Hypervisor with virtual comm ports just fine... :-)

Nick

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