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Re: Add
By: Mr.Penguin to All on Wed May 24 2023 10:27 pm

>
Hello
I am new to this synchronet bbs. I am trying to run some older door games, I can not seem to get any to work. All the pre installed games are fine.
Is it that just the old 16 bit dos games will not run on 32 bit, even through syncronet bbs?
I have patched the exe files with tppatch.
the bbs system says I'm running the game but nothing happens, on either end.
I.E. running in local mode.
Just asking.
Thanks

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Sarge to Mr.Penguin on Sun May 28 2023 04:30 am

> Re: Add
> By: Mr.Penguin to All on Wed May 24 2023 10:27 pm
>
> >
> Hello
> I am new to this synchronet bbs. I am trying to run some older door games, I
> can not seem to get any to work. All the pre installed games are fine.
> Is it that just the old 16 bit dos games will not run on 32 bit, even
> through syncronet bbs?
> I have patched the exe files with tppatch.
> the bbs system says I'm running the game but nothing happens, on either end.
> I.E. running in local mode.
> Just asking.
> Thanks


what os are you using
did you copy your fossil to windows\system32
paste your configuration from scfg
paste your configuration from the doorgame
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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Sarge to Mr.Penguin on Sun May 28 2023 04:30 am

> Re: Add
> By: Mr.Penguin to All on Wed May 24 2023 10:27 pm
>
> >
> Hello
> I am new to this synchronet bbs. I am trying to run some older door games, I
> can not seem to get any to work. All the pre installed games are fine.
> Is it that just the old 16 bit dos games will not run on 32 bit, even
> through syncronet bbs?
> I have patched the exe files with tppatch.
> the bbs system says I'm running the game but nothing happens, on either end.
> I.E. running in local mode.
> Just asking.

This is the wrong message area for Synchronet support questions
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support


Also read this:
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:index

and this:
https://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win#win64

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: MRO to Sarge on Sun May 28 2023 11:03 am

not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the local installed fossil in SBBS.

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: MRO to Sarge on Sun May 28 2023 11:03 am

BTW Windows 7 32 bit

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:34 pm

Well i did figure some things out.
1) tppatch did not patch the exe. files like I thought, I thought the patch exe auto found and patched the files, nope have to do each one in cmd prompt. duh!
2) the syncterm I am using I had for some reason redue the terminal, for ASCII.
But I do thank you for your reply.
I even got SRE to run on synchronet BBS.
So after a lot of head pounding, I'm taking a break.

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Digital Man to Sarge on Sun May 28 2023 12:39 pm

Noted.

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:33 pm

Sa> not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the local
Sa> installed fossil in SBBS.

Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver. I typically use the Synchronet internal fossil driver and have never had to copy anything fossil-related out of the Synchronet directory.

Nightfox

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Nightfox to Sarge on Mon May 29 2023 02:10 pm

> Re: Running xtrn Games
> By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:33 pm
>
> Sa> not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the
> Sa> local installed fossil in SBBS.
>
> Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
> c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.

SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

> I typically use the Synchronet
> internal fossil driver and have never had to copy anything fossil-related
> out of the Synchronet directory.

Yup, that installer does it for you. :-)
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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Nightfox to Sarge on Mon May 29 2023 02:10 pm

> Re: Running xtrn Games
> By: Sarge to MRO on Sun May 28 2023 03:33 pm
>
> Sa> not sure what you mean copy fossil to win32 system. I am using the
> Sa> local installed fossil in SBBS.
>
> Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
> c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver. I typically use the Synchronet

isnt sbbsexec.dll the fossil?
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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm

>
> SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL
> driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director upon
> install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

i had no idea it did that.
was it in a whatsnew file?
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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon May 29 2023 07:30 pm

> Re: Running xtrn Games
> By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm
>
>
> > SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL
> > driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director
> > upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).
>
> i had no idea it did that.
> was it in a whatsnew file?

Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer around the time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.
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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Digital Man to MRO on Mon May 29 2023 06:43 pm

>
> > i had no idea it did that.
> > was it in a whatsnew file?
>
> Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer around the
> time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.

oh i was always telling people to copy their files into system32 to fix their issues, maybe they never used the installer and used the cvs.
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-=> MRO wrote to Digital Man <=-

> > i had no idea it did that.
> > was it in a whatsnew file?

> Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer around the
> time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.

MR> oh i was always telling people to copy their files into system32
MR> to fix their issues, maybe they never used the installer and used
MR> the cvs.

Or maybe you're just clueless.

Yup. I think that's it.



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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm

>> Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
>> c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.

DM> SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual UART/FOSSIL
DM> driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows system32 director
DM> upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions of Synchronet).

Ah. I only ever ran the installer once when I first installed Synchronet in 2007. Over the years, I'd moved my BBS to different PCs (physical and virtual) several times, so I'd manually copy that DLL (I didn't think there would be a need to run the installer again).

Nightfox

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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue May 30 2023 08:48 am

> Re: Running xtrn Games
> By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm
>
> >> Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
> >> c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.
>
> DM> SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual
> DM> UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows
> DM> system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions
> DM> of Synchronet).
>
> Ah. I only ever ran the installer once when I first installed Synchronet in
> 2007. Over the years, I'd moved my BBS to different PCs (physical and
> virtual) several times, so I'd manually copy that DLL (I didn't think there
> would be a need to run the installer again).

And that's correct, if you manually install or copy sbbs to a new Windows computer, you *may* have to copy the sbbsexec.dll to the Windows/System32 directory (depending on the version of Windows NTVDM).
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Re: Running xtrn Games
By: MRO to Digital Man on Mon May 29 2023 09:49 pm

>> Probably. <shrug> That addition was made to the Windows installer
>> around the time of Windows Vista, circa 2007.

MR> oh i was always telling people to copy their files into system32 to fix
MR> their issues, maybe they never used the installer and used the cvs.

I only ever used the Synchronet installer once when I first installed Synchronet on Windows. I had moved my BBS to different systems after that but didn't use the installer when I did that. I'd manually copy that file.

Nightfox

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On 30 May 2023, Gamgee said the following...

Ga> Or maybe you're just clueless.

http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:win?s[]=dll


The very first question, for a reason.

"Did you copy SBBSEXEC.DLL to SYSTEM32?" would be my first suggestion too.

Do you even like BBSes? You seem to spend most of your time upset lol.

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