I recently moved my BBS from Windows to Linux. There were a few door games I had that were Win32 native programs that I'd like to still offer (Ashrella: Test of Time, Tournament Trivia, etc.). I'm curious if anyone has gotten any Win32 BBS doors to run in Linux with Wine (or anything else)?

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(Ashrella: Test of Time, Tournament Trivia, etc.). I'm curious if
anyone has gotten any Win32 BBS doors to run in Linux with Wine (or anything else)?

I'd be interested to hear if you work out a way to do it. I'm not even sure how passing a socket to wine would work - which I imagine you'd need to do?

Good luck with it :)

Andrew

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Re: Re: Win32 BBS doors in Linux with Wine
By: apam to Nightfox on Fri Jun 17 2022 03:38 pm

(Ashrella: Test of Time, Tournament Trivia, etc.). I'm curious if
anyone has gotten any Win32 BBS doors to run in Linux with Wine (or
anything else)?

I'd be interested to hear if you work out a way to do it. I'm not even sure how passing a socket to wine would work - which I imagine you'd need to do?

Good luck with it :)

Yeah, I'm not sure. I was thinking that since DOS doors can run in dosemu in Linux, hopefully there would be a way to get Win32 doors running in Linux somehow..

Yesterday I tried running Ambroshia: Test of Time with Wine, and I found that it actually runs by itself in Wine and appears to work okay. Then I configured my BBS to use Wine to run the door, but when I logged in and tried to run it, my terminal session appeared to freeze. I didn't see the door appear on my BBS either. I had to close my terminal app and kill the wine process (apparently wine did run).

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