Hey everyone,
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
I know that other people have been asking about this, and I tried following the Google groups advice posted by Stephen Perry, but that post is a little old and it didn't work out too well.
Is there a more fresh rundown of all the steps somewhere else? I checked Fido but it looked dry on the topic.
My main focus is just to get it to run so I can play around with it offline. I have my old Compufuck BBS on a Windows pc, but I'm hoping to ditch that machine.
Alternatively, would it be a lot easier for me to use some emulator and continue using Mystic for Windows? Because I tried that too but failed. Are there any known instructions on that somewhere?
On 01-22-20 15:18, metalhead wrote to All <=-
Hey everyone,
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
I know that other people have been asking about this, and I tried following the Google groups advice posted by Stephen Perry, but that
post is a little old and it didn't work out too well.
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
metalhead wrote to All <=-
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
Is there a more fresh rundown of all the steps somewhere else? I
checked Fido but it looked dry on the topic.
Alternatively, would it be a lot easier for me to use some
emulator and continue using Mystic for Windows?
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
On 01-22-20 22:03, Expirobo wrote to metalhead <=-
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
Step 1. Download mystic from http://www.mysticbbs.com/downloads.html
-Linux 64 bit
Step 2. unrar e XXXX.rar into a directory somewhere
Step 3. ./install
Step 4. All paths in the installer are from / (top of filesystem). So /mystic
will be the outside of your user directory. For newbies, I
suggest to
install to /home/<username>/mystic
Step 5. cd /home/<username>/mystic
Step 6. ./mystic -cfg
Step 7. Profit!
I want to install Mystic on Mint 64 Bit, but I'm struggling.
I hate to sound flippant, but without knowing the exact problems you're running into, there's no way to give advice here. I've installed mystic countless times on countless linux distros with no issues.
I heard that DOSBOX doesn't handle multi-node very well.
I heard that DOSBOX doesn't handle multi-node very well.
Almost certainly not. An emulator usually adds more stuff you need to
work out. Just stick to your OS of choice and you'll be OK.
suggest to install to /home/<username>/mystic
No, it doesn't, but dosemu does. Another option these days is QEMU but it's not well known and tested. QEMU can run on a Pi.
So then I resorted back here to Expirobo's message, made that change to the install-to folder, and all set now.
metalhead wrote to Expirobo <=-
Thanks everybody for your help with this.
I first tried the instructions on Throwback BBS, but I got stuck
because I didn't do this:
suggest to install to /home/<username>/mystic
(I'm a linux newb!)
So then I resorted back here to Expirobo's message, made that
change to the install-to folder, and all set now.
Those old instructions on the Google groups page were what were
doing me in on my first try. They are clunky! :)
Analog wrote to Al <=-
No, it doesn't, but dosemu does. Another option these days is QEMU but it's not well known and tested. QEMU can run on a Pi.
I have QEMU running MSDOS with TW2002 fully multinoded using a
share drive for files. Avon and I are working logistics on where
to put the write up. It's not for the faint of heart but it is
solid and works like a charm after you get it going. Stand by for
this in the near future. I plan on including a vanilla MSDOS 6.22
packed with XFS/Nic Drivers/Doskey/Power ready to install any bbs
door game that needs DPMI.
file paths only issue I have is setting local doors. There are a few how-to pages but they lost me after a installing DOSEMU.
No, it doesn't, but dosemu does. Another option these days is QEMU but it's not well known and tested. QEMU can run on a Pi.
I'm frankly having zero luck getting it to work right now :/
Dosemu, on the other hand, shouldn't be /too/ tough. Where are you
getting hung up?
Anyway I have it on my board for download in area 17 if I'm right. No lord.whatever, no lord.conf so on and so on. one bat file, one sh file
and one dosemu.conf.
Very easy setup!
I heard that DOSBOX doesn't handle multi-node very well.
I'm frankly having zero luck getting it to work right now :/
Those old instructions on the Google groups page were what were doing me in on my first try. They are clunky! :)
I'm not too familiar with DOSBOX but can you get it to just use STDIO
for its I/O? Mystic uses STDIO so that you can run any program on the console as a door.
If it were to use sockets for example, a socket door wouldn't work with SSH and you'd have to code it with the intent of it being a BBS door
that inherits a socket and does TCP/IP just to write a line of text to
the screen.
I think you can pass it a socket too but I can't tell you the last time I tried to test something like that.
For some reason, the game darklands (the entire reason I'm messing with dosbox at this point) runs locally in its linux version, but when I run
it that way as a door, it doesn't seem to function correctly. The text display is all garbled. I can run it from a CLI and it's fine but when running as a door command it looks messed up.
Yeah, I'm not super familiar with how sockets work frankly. I notice passing the socket with the argument %H or whatever it is in Mystic was passing a value of something like '10' to the door which may or may not
be an actual socket. Beats me.
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