For months now, I have been struggling with getting Tradewars working again under linux. It was working but, sometime back in June, the EXTERN program began crashing my DOS maintenance BAT. By "crashing," I mean it was
closing the dosemu window entirely, without a visible error message.
I tried running EXTERN under dosbox, as well as BIGBANG, and get the following error:
File Error (1) - (filename).DAT : Invalid Function
filename = the name of the DAT file that the programs are presumably attempting to access at that moment (it varies, depending on the program
and function).
I thought that upgrading to the latest version of debian caused this, as that version of dosemu did cause other issues with other programs. I downgraded dosemu to the previous working version and, although all the other BBS issues went away, the TW issue is still happening.
I do not remember doing anything special to the dosemu settings to get this running... did any of you all that have tradewars working?
Some other things I tried... I went back to the OS/2 box I migrated the BBS from, and the EXTERN program runs fine there. I copied all of those files - DAT, EXE, and the whole directory structure - from the OS/2 box to the
linux box and the problem immediately returned, as in first time I ran EXTERN.
are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?
are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?
I am using tw2002. I did not realize there were dpmi and non-dpmi versions of EXTERN and BIGBANG, which are the components that are failing. Are there?
are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?
File Error (1) - (filename).DAT : Invalid Function
are you using tw2002 and trying dpmi and non dpmi versions?
Took a look at the TW2002 docs... it mentions the dpmi version, and talks about who should and should not use it, but it does not explain how you run which version. So, to answer you question, I have no idea which version it is. :)
File Error (1) - (filename).DAT : Invalid Function
Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sun Sep 24 2017 01:26 pm
So I went to BBSES.info and all that's there is you trashing your BBS.
read the file_id.diz
read the file_id.diz
The file_id.diz does not mention dpmi so I guess I am running the non-dpmi version.
also make sure you have everything setup correctly in the dos environment.
you could use dosbox to run it probably. dunno, i've only used dosbox to run problem doorgames in a windows environment.
also make sure you have everything setup correctly in the dos environment.
I was wondering if anyone had any special settings they used. It was running fine until I upgraded to the new release of debian linux. I downgraded dosemu back to the previous version after a few programs gave me grief, though. Only TW kept behaving badly.
Since it is borked in both dosbox and dosemu, I wonder if it is not something underlying in how these dos emulators access the linux file system. Maybe something in the upgrade of the linux OS "underneath" is causing it.
maybe you just setup the game wrong. run it in a windows environment and see.
maybe you just setup the game wrong. run it in a windows environment and see.
No I had it set up and working properly for years. It quit working when I upgraded to the most-recent stable release of debian.
The same setup still runs under OS/2, which is where it was originally.
Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: Roadhog to MRO on Mon Sep 25 2017 08:50 am
Re: Re: Tradewars under linux
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sun Sep 24 2017 01:26 pm
So I went to BBSES.info and all that's there is you trashing your BBS.
that's not me, that's from a tv show
i took down most of bbses.info's services months ago. [wish i did it sooner]
i still provide hosting and honor the deals i made with providing people services.
Is the torrent seedbox still running? That was a pretty cool service. I grabbed several torrents that looked useful at the time.
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