-=> Byte Knight (Captain's Quarters II wrote to iNoNaMouSe <=-

BKI> On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 7:20:26 PM UTC-6, Rick Sanchez wrote:

> I am not concerned with needing to run the door games from the Mac itself.
> I main;y utilize a game server, or if need be a local 'game server'

BKI> Gotcha. You also probably won't be able to run many of the modern BBS
BKI> mods out there like from Phenom Productions.

You may be correct on some of that, yes. Most of the mods I had running on
my Mystic BBS before were self-coded in mpl. Some of theme the idea came
from Phenom or other type scripts/mods. I just made different versions of
them in mpl for my BBS. I did this often, since many of them only were
written to support 80x25, and I wanted all menus/scripts to support 132x36
also. So I had everything detecting and using the right screen size.

iNoNaMouSe
14.4kps From Your Local Victoria's Secret
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On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 6:20:20 PM UTC-6, Rick Sanchez wrote:
> You may be correct on some of that, yes. Most of the mods I had running on
> my Mystic BBS before were self-coded in mpl. Some of theme the idea came
> from Phenom or other type scripts/mods. I just made different versions of
> them in mpl for my BBS. I did this often, since many of them only were
> written to support 80x25, and I wanted all menus/scripts to support 132x36
> also. So I had everything detecting and using the right screen size.

That's cool! What BBS did you run and what kind of Mac did you run it on?

-=> Byte Knight (Captain's Quarters II wrote to Rick Sanchez <=-

BKI> That's cool! What BBS did you run and what kind of Mac did you run it
BKI> on?

This was Mystic on Linux at the time. I haven't run it on MacOS yet. But
I think I should be able to make most of everything I had working on Mac
as well. I guess maybe I shall find out. However, I may have to look a
different direction if I cannot help figure out what causes Mystic's
QWK mail handling to be so poor. Three Mystic BBS's I've tried to rely
solely on QWK packets for all message handling have failed. After about
a week or so on each, Mystic loses my last read pointers and I then have
thousands of new messsages again. This time, on 20 For Beers, it did that
but also says I have no new messages every time. So I can no longer
download packets at all.

Soo... I am not sure which BBS package I will end up going with now. :(

iNoNaMouSe
14.4kps From Your Local Victoria's Secret
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On Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 11:20:19 AM UTC-6, Rick Sanchez wrote:

> This was Mystic on Linux at the time. I haven't run it on MacOS yet. But
> I think I should be able to make most of everything I had working on Mac
> as well. I guess maybe I shall find out. However, I may have to look a
> different direction if I cannot help figure out what causes Mystic's
> QWK mail handling to be so poor. Three Mystic BBS's I've tried to rely
> solely on QWK packets for all message handling have failed. After about
> a week or so on each, Mystic loses my last read pointers and I then have
> thousands of new messsages again. This time, on 20 For Beers, it did that
> but also says I have no new messages every time. So I can no longer
> download packets at all.
>
> Soo... I am not sure which BBS package I will end up going with now. :(

Any thoughts of using Hermes II? I know it's old but I've got the unreleased 3.5.11 version up and running via TCP and it seems to be pretty stable in OS9. Same issue with the door games though - I can only get two to work (Leech and Blackjack Pro). Not sure, but maybe there would be a way to connect to the game servers using a Python external or if you're handy with THINK Pascal...

-BK