Apologies if this has been asked a bunch of times already (I imagine it has someplace), but I am trying to work out the "preferred" way to install door games like LORD.

I am running my BBS on Linux, and from what I can gather I need to install DOSEmu version 1 (not version 2 as that has some compatibility issues)

However, when I try and compile dosemu 1 from source I get some issues with the configure script not being able to detect glibc (even though its newer that what it needs)

Obviously I can't install it using apt-get as it's long since abandoned.

Am I going about this the right way? feels like I am going down the "wrong" rabbit hole and if someone could point me in the right direction that would be great.

Thanks,

bagwaa

PS: apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this stuff?

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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Bagwaa to All on Fri Jul 04 2025 02:51 am

Apologies if this has been asked a bunch of times already (I imagine it has someplace), but I am trying to work out the "preferred" way to install door games like LORD.

I am running my BBS on Linux, and from what I can gather I need to install DOSEmu version 1 (not version 2 as that has some compatibility issues)

However, when I try and compile dosemu 1 from source I get some issues with the configure script not being able to detect glibc (even though its newer that what it needs)

You can install pre-compiled dosemu binaries using apt-get if available, if you want to.

I'm running my BBS in Linux, and dosemu2 actually works generally well. I was initially using version 1, but TradeWars 2002 actually doesn't seem to work with version 1.. That's a popular enough door that I upgraded to dosemu 2 in order to be able to run TradeWars 2002 (and I've been seeing users playing that plenty of times).

Some doors do seem to have issues with dosemu2 - I've seen some doors (which worked with dosemu 1.x) run very slowly in dosemu2, though now I think I've replaced those doors on my BBS with an alternate door.

There's a Synchronet wiki article on how to get dosemu2 running:

https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

And for dosemu1 if you're interested:

https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu

Nightfox

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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Nightfox to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 04 2025 07:48 am

order to be able to run TradeWars 2002 (and I've been seeing users playing t plenty of times).

I dunno diddly about this game, but I know it's huge :). Is there a big difference between the DOS one and the Javascript one? Do people prefer one over the other or can they even tell the difference?

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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Bagwaa to All on Fri Jul 04 2025 02:51 am

PS: apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this stuff?

Yeah, this is the wrong conference for Synchronet technical support questions. --
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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: phigan to Nightfox on Fri Jul 04 2025 01:09 pm

Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Nightfox to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 04 2025 07:48 am

order to be able to run TradeWars 2002 (and I've been seeing users playing t plenty of times).

I dunno diddly about this game, but I know it's huge :). Is there a big difference between the DOS one and the Javascript one? Do people prefer one over the other or can they even tell the difference?

The JavaScript TradeWars that I'm aware of xtrn/tw2 is "Trade Wars 2", not "Trade Wars 2002" - so there's a big difference between them (in size and features). There is not a JavaScript version of TradeWars 2002 that I'm aware of.
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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Nightfox to Bagwaa on Fri Jul 04 2025 07:48:11

There's a Synchronet wiki article on how to get dosemu2 running:

https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu2

And for dosemu1 if you're interested:

https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu

Thankyou for posting these, I've had all sorts of issues getting v1 working so I will probably try with v2.

bagwaa

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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Bagwaa to Nightfox on Sat Jul 05 2025 09:09 am

Thankyou for posting these, I've had all sorts of issues getting v1 working so I will probably try with v2.

I thought dosemu 1 was actually not bad to set up. v2 was a little more work, but still doable.

Nightfox

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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Digital Man to phigan on Fri Jul 04 2025 01:40 pm

The JavaScript TradeWars that I'm aware of xtrn/tw2 is "Trade Wars 2", not "Trade Wars 2002" - so there's a big difference between them (in size and

Ah, thanks. I have a feeling I've just forgotten this info. So, if you want the actual TW2002 game that everyone love[d/s], you want the OG DOS one.

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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: phigan to Digital Man on Sat Jul 05 2025 01:02 pm

Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Digital Man to phigan on Fri Jul 04 2025 01:40 pm

The JavaScript TradeWars that I'm aware of xtrn/tw2 is "Trade Wars 2", not "Trade Wars 2002" - so there's a big difference between them (in size and

Ah, thanks. I have a feeling I've just forgotten this info. So, if you want the actual TW2002 game that everyone love[d/s], you want the OG DOS one.

Or TradeWars Game Server, TWGS, (that's also TW2002).
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Re: Installing LORD on Synchronet
By: Digital Man to phigan on Sat Jul 05 2025 01:56 pm

Ah, thanks. I have a feeling I've just forgotten this info. So, if you want
the actual TW2002 game that everyone love[d/s], you want the OG DOS one.

Or TradeWars Game Server, TWGS, (that's also TW2002).

Although the same game, I think I'd heard TWGS differs a little bit from TW2002; I'd heard some people still prefer the classic TW2002.

Nightfox

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