• Best DOS Emulator for pi?

    From Stizzed@21:4/156 to All on Tue May 7 01:00:42 2019
    Hello from a Mystic on pi noob!

    Please share your thoughts on the best DOS emulator for running door games in Mystic on the pi.

    Links to install and use docs would be most appreciated.

    -stizzed

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  • From deon@21:2/116.1 to Stizzed on Tue May 7 05:21:20 2019
    On 06 May 2019, Stizzed said the following...
    Please share your thoughts on the best DOS emulator for running door
    games in Mystic on the pi.

    I've used QEMU successfully. I think its about the only thing you can use on the pi too?

    ...deon

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  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to Stizzed on Wed May 8 19:17:25 2019
    I was running the BBS on a pi for a while using qemu. At the time I set it up there was a really good document I found on setting up Doors using Qemu on Synchronet. I was able to get about half of the doors I tried up and running. The main issue I had was the lag it took to start up qemu. Other than that it worked really well! I'll go back and see if I can find that document I was using to set them up

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  • From Gryphon@21:1/120 to bamageek on Wed May 15 17:50:53 2019
    On 08 May 2019 &4, bamageek said the following...

    I was running the BBS on a pi for a while using qemu. At the time I set
    it up there was a really good document I found on setting up Doors using Qemu on Synchronet. I was able to get about half of the doors I tried up and running. The main issue I had was the lag it took to start up qemu. Other than that it worked really well! I'll go back and see if I can
    find that document I was using to set them up


    I've optimized FDOS to start up right away. I used to have the lag, butn now
    I don't.

    Here's my FDCONFIG.SYS

    COUNTRY=001,858,C:\FDOS\BIN\COUNTRY.SYS
    SET DOSDIR=C:\FDOS
    LASTDRIVE=Z
    BUFFERS=20
    FILES=100
    DOS=HIGH
    DOS=UMB
    DOSDATA=UMB
    DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\NANSI.SYS
    DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE
    REM DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE X=TEST I=TEST I=B000-B7FF FASTBOOT DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE
    SHELLHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\FDOS\FDAUTO.BAT

    and FDAUTO.BAT
    @echo off
    SET LANG=EN
    SET MTCPCFG=C:\FDOS\MTCP.CFG
    SET PATH=%dosdir%\BIN;C:\;D:\;C:\archive;C:\bnu
    SET NLSPATH=%dosdir%\NLS
    SET HELPPATH=%dosdir%\HELP
    SET TEMP=%dosdir%\TEMP
    SET TMP=%TEMP%
    SET DIRCMD=/P /OGN /4
    SET COPYCMD=/-Y
    LH SHARE
    DOSLFN
    REM MEM /C /N
    SET AUTOFILE=%0
    SET CFGFILE=C:\FDCONFIG.SYS
    alias reboot=fdapm warmboot
    alias halt=fdapm pureoff
    alias exit=fdapm poweroff
    alias shutdown=fdapm poweroff
    alias cfg=edit %cfgfile%
    alias auto=edit %0
    alias ls=dir /w
    alias ll=dir
    cd \bnu
    bnu
    cd \
    CALL E:\RUN.BAT

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