• Door game ansi

    From Cozmo@21:3/135 to All on Fri Jun 25 18:08:22 2021
    I added a new Door game today to the BBS. When I load the Door the ansi doesn't load unless i hit "enter". I have to keep hitting enter for the whole ansi to load. A few lines of the ansi will load at a time when I hit "enter" Anyone know why this would be happening?

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Cozmo on Fri Jun 25 17:27:03 2021
    I added a new Door game today to the BBS. When I load the Door the ansi doesn't load unless i hit "enter". I have to keep hitting enter for the whole ansi to load. A few lines of the ansi will load at a time when I hit "enter" Anyone know why this would be happening?

    Hmmmm. What door game is it and... maybe I could come by and SEE. Its so hard to try and diagnose an issue, for me, without seeing it.

    Why the heck would that happen tho - does the door use any software to talk to Mystic??



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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to paulie420 on Sat Jun 26 13:09:16 2021
    Hmmmm. What door game is it and... maybe I could come by and SEE. Its so hard to try and diagnose an issue, for me, without seeing it.

    Paulie, If you go to the "Fun Section" on Lunatics and type "4" you'll get to the door. It's a Putt Putt game. It's a hidden menu option. once it loads the screen will be blank. Hit "enter" and some of the ansi will load. Each time you hit "enter" more of the ansi will load. I dod notice that if I give it time it will load on it's own but only a few lines at a time and it takes forever.

    Why the heck would that happen tho - does the door use any software to talk to Mystic??

    It's uses NetFoss as the fossil. Other than that its just a menu command that loads a .bat file

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  • From Bucko@21:4/131 to paulie420 on Sat Jun 26 16:06:36 2021
    On 25 Jun 2021, paulie420 said the following...

    Hmmmm. What door game is it and... maybe I could come by and SEE. Its so hard to try and diagnose an issue, for me, without seeing it.

    Why the heck would that happen tho - does the door use any software to talk to Mystic??

    It is happening to me with BRE on a SynchroNet setup... :(

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Cozmo on Sat Jun 26 21:36:39 2021
    Paulie, If you go to the "Fun Section" on Lunatics and type "4" you'll
    get to the door. It's a Putt Putt game. It's a hidden menu option. once
    it loads the screen will be blank. Hit "enter" and some of the ansi will load. Each time you hit "enter" more of the ansi will load. I dod notice that if I give it time it will load on it's own but only a few lines at
    a time and it takes forever.

    It's uses NetFoss as the fossil. Other than that its just a menu command that loads a .bat file

    Hmmm - well, it seems like you got it working??? Or, anyway; when I pulled the door up it displayed the ANSI correctly. Lemme go test again, I'm logged into Lunatics right now...

    Lol, well - it seems to be hanging after I exit the game and before Lunatics loads back up again. BUT the game did display correctly and I took a putt...

    Had you figured some things out? I'm still hung at the 'returning to Lunatics' screen ATM.... :P Its always something...



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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to paulie420 on Sun Jun 27 11:06:20 2021
    Hmmm - well, it seems like you got it working??? Or, anyway; when I
    pulled the door up it displayed the ANSI correctly. Lemme go test again, I'm logged into Lunatics right now...

    Lol, well - it seems to be hanging after I exit the game and before Lunatics loads back up again. BUT the game did display correctly and I took a putt...

    Wall E. Weasel helped me with this. He did get it to load and run, but like you said it hangs when you exit the door. Wall E. really dug in to this. His conclusion was that the door is using both FOSSIL and UART so we used DOSEXTRN and got it to work. But something with ansi.com after you exit the door is creating problems. So I will probably half to just deal with the ansi loading by hitting "Enter" numerous times.

    Wall E. Weasel really helped me out a lot on this one. Spent hours with me on the board to try and figure it out. Even though this is beyond my tech knowledge, I learn a few things.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Cozmo on Sun Jun 27 11:22:37 2021
    Hmmm - well, it seems like you got it working???

    Wall E. Weasel helped me with this. He did get it to load and run, but like you said it hangs when you exit the door. Wall E. really dug in to this. His conclusion was that the door is using both FOSSIL and UART so
    we used DOSEXTRN and got it to work. But something with ansi.com after
    you exit the door is creating problems. So I will probably half to just deal with the ansi loading by hitting "Enter" numerous times.

    Wall E. Weasel really helped me out a lot on this one. Spent hours with
    me on the board to try and figure it out. Even though this is beyond my tech knowledge, I learn a few things.


    Yea, I heard you mention on... Matrix, or somewhere, that Wall E. Weasel came thru to help you try and figure it out. I love our community, and two heads are ALWAYS better on a BBS problem. I can't count the times that someone else had an idea or inkling that helped me solve this problem, or that...

    But I wanted to mention Wall E. Weasel on fsxNet... its awesome that folks are willing to dive in and help - I try to do the same when I can, and have a phone meeting today for a board I co on. :P

    Together we can solve all the problems. Theres a way to get that door going... hmmmmm. :P Big props to Wall E. Weasel - I'm always happy to hear these stories of BBS communities coming together. w00t w00t!



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  • From Ratz@21:2/114 to Cozmo on Sun Jun 27 01:41:24 2021
    I added a new Door game today to the BBS. When I load the Door the ansi doesn't load unless i hit "enter". I have to keep hitting enter for the whole ansi to load. A few lines of the ansi will load at a time when I hit "enter" Anyone know why this would be happening?

    Hi cozmo, I had a game do that to me as well it was ShadowBoard. I was using netfoss at he time to load the game, it never worked right. I then started loading my games with (DX) DOSXTRN instead of (DD) and the game loaded fine.

    I assumed the fault was with netfoss. If you want to see my setup let me know.



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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to Ratz on Mon Jun 28 14:47:24 2021
    Hi cozmo, I had a game do that to me as well it was ShadowBoard. I was using netfoss at he time to load the game, it never worked right. I then started loading my games with (DX) DOSXTRN instead of (DD) and the game loaded fine.
    I assumed the fault was with netfoss. If you want to see my setup let me know.

    Thanks Ratz. Wall E. Weasel was working on the problem with me. We did change to (DX) DOSXTRN. But started having problems with the game crashing. It was a little bit more involved than that. It's a bit above my tech knowledge. But everthing is working great now. Wall E. Weasel could explain it better than me.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Cozmo on Mon Jun 28 16:02:41 2021
    Thanks Ratz. Wall E. Weasel was working on the problem with me. We did change to (DX) DOSXTRN. But started having problems with the game crashing. It was a little bit more involved than that. It's a bit above
    my tech knowledge. But everthing is working great now. Wall E. Weasel could explain it better than me.

    Oh, cool - you got it fully rocking now? I'll have to come by and give it a test. :P Happy to hear that, tho. w00t w00t!

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  • From Cozmo@21:3/135 to paulie420 on Mon Jun 28 20:12:07 2021
    Paulie, I moved it to Local section of the Game Room. Give it a try. Take alittle bit to get the hang of it. The golf ball also moves kind of fast because its an older door. But it's a fun game.

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Cozmo on Mon Jun 28 19:18:38 2021
    Paulie, I moved it to Local section of the Game Room. Give it a try. Take alittle bit to get the hang of it. The golf ball also moves kind of fast because its an older door. But it's a fun game.

    Cool. Stoked that you guys got it crackin - and again, big thanks to Wile E... the guy who helped out. :P

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