Can any of you guys who have gotten FE up and running give me a hand here? I've followed the serup instructions on the wiki and was able to get BRE running smoothly (Man that brings back memories) and I've follwed the instructions for Falcon's Eye but I can't get it to work. I can run Falcon's Eye locally in a CMD window and all's well but when I try and run it through the BBS, I see the CMD window come up and then the system freezes.
I'm running Synchronet 3.15b on a Windows 7 (32bit) system.
Thanks in advance.
Sure Buck I am trying to get games installed on my Linux Synchronet BBS but read this:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:index
You might have to run the FOSSIL driver:
DOSXTRN.EXE
This 16-bit DOS component of the Synchronet FOSSIL driver for Windows (all flavors) is called DOSXTRN.EXE and it is located in the Synchronet exec directory. This program will not work with 64-bit versions of Windows since Microsoft does not include a DOS virtual machine (NTVDM) with those versions
of Windows.
Since you run the 32 bit version you should be alright. Just run the 16 bit FOSSIL driver DOSXTRN.EXE stated above and see if that fixes it.
You might be getting the Error 200 or divide by zero error on faster processors:
Runtime error 200
Some 16-bit DOS programs (including many old doors) which were written and compiled with Turbo Pascal will have a problem (divide by zero) running on faster computers. The error will show itself upon execution of the door something like this:
Runtime error 200 at 345A:0091
This is a well known problem (often referred to as ôRTE200ö) and there are several programs which you can use to 'patch' the .EXE files to fix the problem. Which patch works seems to depend upon the program in question.
ftp://vert.synchro.net/main/util/patchcrt.zip
This is an entire page on the subject matter with links to several patching programs.
You may need to patch the .EXE files before you can even install or setup the door.
make sure you are using the proper BBS settings:
http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:door:fe
Name Falcons' Eye v1.06
Internal Code FE
Start-up Directory ../xtrn/fe
Command Line fe
Clean-up Command Line
Execution Cost None
Access Requirements
Execution Requirements
Multiple Concurrent Users Yes
Intercept Standard I/O No
Native (32-bit) Executable No
Modify User Data No
Execute on Event No
BBS Drop File Type (R) Solar Realms DOORFILE.SR
Place Drop File In Start-Up Directory
Good luck I hope it fixes it for you. If anyone figures out how to configure DOSEMU under Linux to run these doors, please let me know.
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