Sorry I didn't join this thread when it was current. I haven't been around here recently. Don't know why the board would have been down in March, but it couldn't have been down long. Blue Lobster has been online continuously since March 2007, except for about a year when I decided to try to live …

I want others to be able to telnet to my Fedora 14 system (bash bbs) and be able to launch and play Legend of the Red Dragon Forgive me for giving you this advice (I hate it, too, when people do this to me). It won't solve your problem with DOSbox but it will accomplish your goal. If you're going …

DOSbox was still open, the socket was still inherited, and the player supposedly was still on BBS Node 1, although he had hung up more than 12 hours earlier. Before this happened, if you had asked me, I would have said it wasn't possible. It has happened three times.

Synchronet 3.15a running in WinXP SP2. The longest it has hung was 743 minutes (over 12 hours). When I discovered it, I closed DOSbox and the connection was broken.

I've encountered a problem with my DOS BBS door running in DOSbox using socket inheritance. On several occasions one of my Tradewars 1.03 players has disconnected while still in the door. When he does, neither the door nor DOSbox nor the BBS software detects that he has hung up and the BBS node …

I just edited the instructions in my original post to include running the ne2000 driver, and I also uploaded the driver file to that post.

The fact that you have to tinker with DOSBox's emulated NIC at all very strongly suggests that both of these programs are using some kind of TCP/IP networking (yes, they had that in the early 1990's) rather than the Hayes modem commands supported by DOS dial-up software. Or perhaps we have …

Tark wrote: You can use Dosbox to connect to telnet BBSes and you can do it using DOS dial-up terminal programs. The Lync terminal program is attached to this post. It's a good program to use because its dial directory allows URLs in the phone number field. This sounds like a program substantially …

I discovered this while trying to figure something else out. You can use Dosbox to connect to telnet BBSes and you can do it using DOS dial-up terminal programs. Here is how to do it, assuming you have a broadband Internet connection and that you connect through a network card: 1. Use Dosbox 0.73 -- …

The same for me, too. Dosbox 0.73 works! I tested my door and it is working perfectly as far as I can tell. The current Dosbox release (0.74) doesn't work, and strangely neither does 0.72. I hope the problem gets fixed in future Dosbox versions.

Are you using the socket inheritance system in DOSBox? Because, if you are, I'd like to know if you had a problem with DOSBox not taking input, but outputting text and graphics back to the client I'd like to know if you're using socket inheritance and have it working both ways, too.

Since I was the last post, I assume you're talking to me. I'm running Win XP SP2, Synchronet 3.15a, Dosbox 0.74. Playing with Dosbox, I have succeeded in calling out to telnet BBSes using a DOS dialup terminal program (using URLs in place of phone numbers) and in setting up a DOS BBS (Tritel 1.1) in …

I am having the same problem trying to run an old version of Tradewars in Dosbox on a Synchronet BBS. The game (in Dosbox) outputs to the BBS but doesn't see any input from the BBS. It is as if the socket inheritance feature only works in one direction.