I know that doscmd support is included in the freebsd build of synchronet,
but i'm looking for a simple doc or guide on how to get it working so I
can slap up some of the old dos games.

any takers?

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I know that doscmd support is included in the freebsd build of synchronet, but i'm looking for a simple doc or guide on how to get it working so I
can slap up some of the old dos games.

Did anyone ever get back to you on this? I have a hidden page on my website that covers running DOS doors under Synchronet, been busy with code at work and by the time I get home anything beyond watching movies or screwing around with some of the new video games is off the radar. Thought I'd do a quick scan of the messages and saw your question.

Roughly line 1348 in the xtrn.cpp code is where the FreeBSD specific DOSEMU stuff is if you want to know the directory structure it uses. Haven't kept
up with the CVS changes so my source for that file may not match the current source. Doubt they've changed that part of it though, can't think of any reason they'd need to. Line numbers may differ that's about it I'd suspect.

The FreeBSD routine is much more streamlined than the Linux section of the code but overall they appear to do the same basic thing, set up your DOS
paths and directories then fire off DOSEMU to launch the game. Batch files I think would be the only real difference from examples I have online for my Gentoo box and what you'd need for your system.

Gotta rewire my amps and speakers in my ZJ this weekend so don't know how
much time I'll be spending at my desk, but you can shoot me an email with the webmaster link on my site if you still can't sort this out.

The "documentation" I've put together so far is at:

http://www.testing-solutions.org/Synchronet/DOSEMU-HandBook.html

Regards,
Rob

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Re: FreeBSD
By: Robert LaPrise to Netsurge on Thu Mar 13 2008 11:34 pm

Thanks for the help. I have since just moved from BSD to linux since doscmd requires X to run and have got DOSEMU up and running on Debian without a hitch.

I know that doscmd support is included in the freebsd build of synchronet but i'm looking for a simple doc or guide on how to get it working so I can slap up some of the old dos games.

Did anyone ever get back to you on this? I have a hidden page on my website that covers running DOS doors under Synchronet, been busy with code at work and by the time I get home anything beyond watching movies or screwing aroun with some of the new video games is off the radar. Thought I'd do a quick scan of the messages and saw your question.

Roughly line 1348 in the xtrn.cpp code is where the FreeBSD specific DOSEMU stuff is if you want to know the directory structure it uses. Haven't kept up with the CVS changes so my source for that file may not match the current source. Doubt they've changed that part of it though, can't think of any reason they'd need to. Line numbers may differ that's about it I'd suspect.

The FreeBSD routine is much more streamlined than the Linux section of the code but overall they appear to do the same basic thing, set up your DOS paths and directories then fire off DOSEMU to launch the game. Batch files think would be the only real difference from examples I have online for my Gentoo box and what you'd need for your system.

Gotta rewire my amps and speakers in my ZJ this weekend so don't know how much time I'll be spending at my desk, but you can shoot me an email with th webmaster link on my site if you still can't sort this out.

The "documentation" I've put together so far is at:

http://www.testing-solutions.org/Synchronet/DOSEMU-HandBook.html

Regards,
Rob

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Re: Anyone?
By: Netsurge to All on Thu Mar 13 2008 10:21 pm

Thanks for the help. I have since just moved from BSD to linux since
doscmd requires X to run and have got DOSEMU up and running on Debian without a hitch.

doscmd only requires X for the local display. *shrug*

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Thanks for the help. I have since just moved from BSD to linux since doscmd requires X to run

"requires" it to run? I'll admit I haven't looked at it for awhile, but I don't recall that...

and have got DOSEMU up and running on Debian without a hitch.

I'm glad to hear that, as I plan to enable it in the debian packaging I'm working on...



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Just so happens on the newsfeed on my phone this morning. There is a blog called Admin...by accident. It's written by Albertvalbuena.

The title is Linux VS open source unix. He goes into and pretty in-depth article abd the differences and similarities and what they use to make them different.

He used feature name linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBsd, NetBSD and Illumos.

It's fairly long but it was interesting.

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Re: FreeBSD
By: Grease to All on Mon Nov 04 2019 09:59 am

He used feature name linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, TrustedBsd, NetBSD and Illumos.

Funny, I ran into the same article on hacker news. I remember when Linux was considered "UNIX-like", now I suppose everything else is "Linux-like".

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Re: FreeBSD
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Grease on Mon Nov 04 2019 04:13 pm

Re: FreeBSD
By: Grease to All on Mon Nov 04 2019 09:59 am

Funny, I ran into the same article on hacker news. I remember when Linux was considered "UNIX-like", now I suppose everything else is "Linux-like".

Now windows has linux in it, and OS/2 had Windows in it. Lines are getting blurred all the time.

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Re: FreeBSD
By: Grease to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 05 2019 09:35 am

Now windows has linux in it, and OS/2 had Windows in it. Lines are getting blurred all the time.

I'm not sure if the graphical interface works in the Linux that's in Windows now, but if so, it might be fun to try to run a Windows app on Wine on the Linux subsystem in Windows.

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Re: FreeBSD
By: Nightfox to Grease on Wed Nov 06 2019 10:00 am

Re: FreeBSD
By: Grease to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 05 2019 09:35 am
I'm not sure if the graphical interface works in the Linux that's in Windows now, but if so, it might be fun to try to run a Windows app on Wine on the Linux subsystem in Windows.

We have now officially entered the Matrix.

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Re: FreeBSD
By: Nightfox to Grease on Wed Nov 06 2019 10:00 am

Re: FreeBSD
By: Grease to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Nov 05 2019 09:35 am

Now windows has linux in it, and OS/2 had Windows in it. Lines are
getting blurred all the time.

I'm not sure if the graphical interface works in the Linux that's in Windows now, but if so, it might be fun to try to run a Windows app on Wine on the Linux subsystem in Windows.

I've not tried installing a 'native' X11 desktop to the Ubuntu inside Windows 10 just due to the sheer size of additional packages I would need, but I can run linux 'graphical' interface program in the Ubuntu subsystem that will display to the X-Ming X desktop program I run on Windows.

The Ubuntu subsytem in Windows 10 will not install the 'wine' pacakge, but I've not tried installing CrossOver from CodeWeavers. Sounds like a 'hold my beer' moment.
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