I am trying to add a dos door and have the following issues:

says

cannot setup graphics mode under terminal.

Any ideas? Does synchronet support dos graphics?

Also I noticed I have no D: NODEDIR

synchronet is installed under dir /gbbs/sbbs

this is my dosemu.conf

_cpu = "80486"
$_cpu_emu = "emulator"
$_floppy_a = ""
$_cdrom = ""
$_xms = (8192)
$_ems = (2048)
$_dpmi_base = (0x10000000)
$_ems_frame = (0xe000)
$_external_char_set = "cp437"
$_internal_char_set = "cp437"
$_term_updfreq = (8)
$_layout = "us"
$_rawkeyboard = (auto)
$_mouse_internal = (on)
$_mouse_dev = ""
$_joy_device = ""
$_lpt1 = ""
$_lp2 = ""
$_speaker = ""
$_sound = (off)
$_sb_dsp = ""

$_hdimage = "+0 -2 /gbbs/sbbs/ctrl /gbbs/sbbs/data /gbbs/sbbs/xtrn
/gbbs/sbbs/exec +1"
$_lredir_paths = "/gbbs/sbbs"

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Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to All on Mon Feb 13 2023 11:32 am

tm> I am trying to add a dos door and have the following issues:

tm> says

tm> cannot setup graphics mode under terminal.

tm> Any ideas? Does synchronet support dos graphics?

If the DOS door program is trying to enter a graphics mode on the BBS machine, I'm not sure that will work. What door is it?

Nightfox

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I am trying to install the game darkness it complains about the size of the
screen. Note Dos needs 25 lines enlarge window before starting that is what
error I am getting.

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Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Mon Feb 13 2023 03:57 pm

tm> I am trying to install the game darkness it complains about the size of
tm> the screen. Note Dos needs 25 lines enlarge window before starting that is
tm> what error I am getting.

I have Darkness set up on my BBS as well, and it seems to be failing to run for me as well. I'll need to look into that.

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tm> I am trying to install the game darkness it complains about the size of
tm> the screen. Note Dos needs 25 lines enlarge window before starting that
tm> is what error I am getting.

Are you using traditional dosemu or dosemu2? I have dosemu2 with no problems running darkness.

In my /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf I have the following:

$_fixed_term_size = "80x25"

This will fix the "Dos needs 25 lines..." error you're seeing. What's probably happening is dosemu is displaying thta line of text and waiting for someone to press enter, but it's not waiting on the virtual comport, so the keypresses from the user session aren't making it through.

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That fixed the lines issue but now it goes to the screen with a cursor than
back to game menu so something is wrong. Where do I look to troubleshoot? Using
Linux by the way.

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I see one issue and not sure where to fix this:

it can't find DOOR.SYS the directory slashing is wrong.

It has D:/gbbs/sbbs/node1\DOOR.SYS not found in log

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weird fixed that but says still not found. Maybe I have it setup wrong in SCFG?
How is this supposed to be setup? Using the 16 bit executable.

D:/GBBS/SBBS/NODE1/DOOR.SYS and it's in that directory so not sure whats up
here

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Ryan Fantus on Tue Feb 14 2023 01:55 pm

tm> I see one issue and not sure where to fix this:

tm> it can't find DOOR.SYS the directory slashing is wrong.

tm> It has D:/gbbs/sbbs/node1\DOOR.SYS not found in log

Normally (and by default, I think), your dosemu setup with Synchronet should be set up such that drive D: is whatever node directory the user is on (so D: would be your sbbs/node1), so your door configuration would just need to specify D:\DOOR.SYS as the drop file (or be pointed to D:\DOOR.SYS by the %F command-line specifier, or perhaps be pointed to D:\ with the %n command-line spedifier - and note the 'n' there is lower-case, as I'm pretty sure %N (capital N) is the node number).

Nightfox

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Ok, right now i have it command line like this dark16.exe %n the n wold be the
node number that user is currently at correct?

I am not sure what to do here this is my first door install so bare with me new
to this.

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Tue Feb 14 2023 03:48 pm

> Ok, right now i have it command line like this dark16.exe %n the n wold be
> the node number that user is currently at correct?

No, %n is the specifier for the node *directory*. See
http://wiki.synchro.net/config:cmdline for details.
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got it, I added the following to darkness config:

D:\gbbs\sbbs\node#\door.sys
in scfg I added dark16.exe %f

I get the following in external.bat

SET STARTDIR=darkness
@lredir -f E: \gbbs\sbbs\xtrn\dosgames >NUL
@lredir -f F: \gbbs\sbbs\ctrl >NUL
@lredir -f G: \gbbs\sbbs\data >NUL
@lredir -f H: \gbbs\sbbs\exec >NUL
@lredir -f D: \gbbs\sbbs\node1 >NUL

:EXEC
dark16.exe D:\DOOR.SYS

I am guessing dosemu2 not giving full path or am I missing something?
the game complains cant find door.sys

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I got somewhere it looks like now though getting:

Error initializing fossil driver!

does dosemu2 come with fossil driver?

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Thanks, I got it working.

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I was confused but now I get it. Thanks for all the help.

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Tue Feb 14 2023 03:48 pm

tm> Ok, right now i have it command line like this dark16.exe %n the n wold be
tm> the node number that user is currently at correct?

%n is the node directory. I may have been incorrect previously, as %# is the node number.
The command-line specifiers that Synchronet supports are listed here:
http://wiki.synchro.net/config:cmdline

You should look at the documentation for the door you're setting up to be sure you use the correct command line for it. You might not be able to just give it the node number like that - it might need a command-line specifier to tell it the next thing is the node number, etc..

Nightfox

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I didn't find any clear docs on the game darkness. Did you?

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 12:19 pm

tm> I didn't find any clear docs on the game darkness. Did you?

I didn't. But I've been able to get Darkness to run.
There's a batch file, START.BAT, and in there, I saw that it has this command:

DARKNESS.EXE /N%1

So it looks like you can pass the command-line argument /N with the node number. In SCFG, I now have it set to run DARKNESS.EXE /N%# and it's working. Just be sure to run DARKCFG and configure the door with the drop file type and the location of the drop file. The location of the drop file should always be D:\ for all nodes when using dosemu. Currently I have it set to use DOOR.SYS for the drop file type.

Nightfox

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Interesting the darkness zip file I got didnt have start.bat? Where did you get
the file? Thanks

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 01:18 pm

tm> Interesting the darkness zip file I got didnt have start.bat? Where did
tm> you get the file? Thanks

I don't remember where I downloaded Darkness. But my zip file doesn't have start.bat either. start.bat is generated the first time you run darkcfg. It sounds like you haven't run darkcfg?

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Oh ok, I will try that. This is where I got it

https://jackphla.sh/darkness/

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 02:30 pm

tm> Oh ok, I will try that. This is where I got it

It would be good if you quoted the part of the message you're replying to. That would make your messages easier to follow.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: Nightfox to tmccaffe on Mon Feb 20 2023 01:03 pm

> Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
> By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 12:19 pm
>
> tm> I didn't find any clear docs on the game darkness. Did you?
>

there arent any docs with the archive?
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Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
By: MRO to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 06:20 pm

> tm>> I didn't find any clear docs on the game darkness. Did you?

MR> there arent any docs with the archive?

Why are you replying to me? I didn't write what you quoted.

And no, there are no docs in the archive, aside from a whatsnew.txt (at least in the zip file I have).

Nightfox

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> Re: Re: Dosemu door help?
> By: tmccaffe to Nightfox on Mon Feb 20 2023 12:19 pm

> I didn't. But I've been able to get Darkness to run.
> There's a batch file, START.BAT, and in there, I saw that it has this
> command:

> DARKNESS.EXE /N%1

> So it looks like you can pass the command-line argument /N with the node
> number. In SCFG, I now have it set to run DARKNESS.EXE /N%# and it's
> working. Just be sure to run DARKCFG and configure the door with the drop
> file type and the location of the drop file. The location of the drop file
> should always be D:\ for all nodes when using dosemu. Currently I have it set
> to use DOOR.SYS for the drop file type.

> Nightfox

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I did the following:
command line DARK16.EXE /N%#

in externalbat file in that node which is 3 has:
:EXEC
DARK16.EXE /N3

That is for sure wrong isn't suposed to be D:/NODE3/DOOR.SYS ?

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