Hi everybody. This seems like a newbie question, and it is, but I am new to Mystic and I am having trouble installing door games. I am not sure what to put in the configuration. Are there some instructions somewhere on how to install doors on Mystic? I used to run a BBS back in the 90s but I've forgotten most of what I knew back then. Do I need a fossil driver or some kind of drop file? I'm totally confused, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Alonzo - The Unmarked Van BBS - Telnet: woofer.v6.rocks - Mt. Healthy, Ohio

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On 25 Dec 2022 at 10:30a, Alonzo pondered and said...

Hi everybody. This seems like a newbie question, and it is, but I am new to Mystic and I am having trouble installing door games. I am not sure what to put in the configuration. Are there some instructions somewhere
on how to install doors on Mystic? I used to run a BBS back in the 90s
but I've forgotten most of what I knew back then. Do I need a fossil driver or some kind of drop file? I'm totally confused, so any help
would be appreciated. Thanks. Alonzo - The Unmarked Van BBS - Telnet: woofer.v6.rocks - Mt. Healthy, Ohio

The first thing is what kind of door do you want to run? It's likely that it may be something you can only run on a 32 bit system and ideally on Windows not some dos-box type emulation.

There are other doors like Galactic Dynasty and For Honour that Apam has created and they run both on Linux and Windows.. we run a inter-bbs league for them here in fsxNet and there's some guidance in the infopack about how to install them etc.

I am not an expert in this area but have run some doors on Windows and Linux so can help you a bit, others will also chip in with their advice and guidance :)

There are door servers that offer you the option to link to their cloud based service so you don;t have to install the doors locally... and many love and use them , and that's all cool too... it kinda depends on if you like/want to run them/install/cong etc. locally and enjoy that sort of thing or if you don't want to both with that but just have some avail on your BBS via a doorway server / service..

Best, Paul

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Hi everybody. This seems like a newbie question, and it is, but I am new to Mystic and I am having trouble installing door games. I am not sure what to put in the configuration. Are there some instructions somewhere
on how to install doors on Mystic? I used to run a BBS back in the 90s
but I've forgotten most of what I knew back then. Do I need a fossil driver or some kind of drop file? I'm totally confused, so any help
would be appreciated. Thanks. Alonzo - The Unmarked Van BBS - Telnet:

Welcome back to BBSing! Are you running a Windows system or Unix? If your using a windows system maybe this will help a bit. I've had luck with most of the games I've run but a few of the older ones like Yankee Trader I haven't been able to get to run. I use Netfossil to run the doors here (I think 1.14 is the one I'm using) Just has to be unzipped. On my system I have a NETFOSS subdirectory under my main \Mystic directory. In this folder I have a NF.BAT file:

@echo off
rem **you can optionally add ansi.com here**
d:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com %1
if errorlevel 1 goto end
d:\mystic\netfoss\netcom.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 d:\mystic\netfoss\netfoss.com /u
:end

Set up the doors using the instructions for each door. In the Mystic menu editor then you call the NF.BAT passing arguments. For example, here is my Trade Wars setup:

Action List:
Command: (DD) Exec external program
Data: d:\mystic\netfoss\nf.bat /N%3 /h%0 d:\mystic\doors\2002\TW.BAT %3

My tw.bat simply goes to the directory and calls TW2002 TWNODE=%1


For some of the newer doors you can use the DOOR32 Action basicly works the same. For Galactic Dynasty I have:

Command: (D3) Exec DOOR32 program
Data: d:\mystic\netfoss\nf.bat /N%3 /h%0 d:mystic\doors\gdynwin\rungd.cmd
%Pdoor32.sys %N %H

My rungd.cmd navigates to the directory and calls GalacticDynasty.exe %1 %3
(I don't remember why I'm not passing %2)

I hope this helps!

Dave

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Thanks, Paul. I would like to install the doors on my own computer if possible, but playing them on the cloud would be ok too. I love some of those old-school games like Barneysplat and Operation Overkill. Really though, I'd be happy to get anything at all to work. I've altered my Windows settings to allow me to run 32 bit programs, but it doesn't seem to have worked.

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Thanks so much! That was exactly the information I was looking for.

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On 29 Dec 2022, Alonzo said the following...

Thanks so much! That was exactly the information I was looking for.

... System halted - Press all keys at once to continue

Good luck to you!

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At the expense of sounding like a newbie, I really need help setting up some door games with my Mystic BBS. Can someone point me toward some good
examples, with the full details about setting them up?

I don't know beans about the drop files or external stuff you need to run the doors. That's why I need some real examples, with complete setup
instructions.

Thanks a lot.
Alonzo - Bunker 3 BBS - Telnet: woofer.v6.rocks:8888

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The first thing is what kind of door do you want to run? It's likely
that it may be something you can only run on a 32 bit system and ideally on Windows not some dos-box type emulation.

There are other doors like Galactic Dynasty and For Honour that Apam has created and they run both on Linux and Windows.. we run a inter-bbs
league for them here in fsxNet and there's some guidance in the infopack about how to install them etc.

At this point, I am ready for anything. I just want some games
on my board. I have tried to connect with some of the door
servers but haven't had any luck yet. I used to run a BBS in
the 90s and could do absolutely anything with it, but now
I am an old geezer and I've forgotten 90% of what I used to
know. I will keep trying. Thanks for the reply.ñ

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Welcome back to BBSing! Are you running a Windows system or Unix? If
your using a windows system maybe this will help a bit. I've had luck
with most of the games I've run but a few of the older ones like Yankee Trader I haven't been able to get to run. I use Netfossil to run the

Thanks for the ideas. I really appreciate it. I can't seem to
get any of this stuff right lately and it's driving me nuts. :)

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Thanks for the ideas. I really appreciate it. I can't seem to
get any of this stuff right lately and it's driving me nuts. :)

I know what you mean I get frustrated with stuff sometimes got a lot of open fires that I started and never got back to. You'll get it! :)

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