I would like to see a video about some of the most weird bbs packages like Darkstar that was promoted on this echo 30
years ago.

Or a video of MAX graphics being used.


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On 22 Mar 26 10:09:36, Matthew Munson said the following to All:

I would like to see a video about some of the most weird bbs packages like Darkstar that was promoted on this echo 30
years ago.

Or a video of MAX graphics being used.

Why do we need videos? Just find them and install them yourself.

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to Matthew Munson:

Why do we need videos? Just find them and install them yourself.

If you can get any of that stuff to install these days.

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Darkstar that was promoted on this echo 30
years ago.

Or a video of MAX graphics being used.

Why?

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On 22 Mar 26 20:17:03, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

Why do we need videos? Just find them and install them yourself.

If you can get any of that stuff to install these days.

I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old setups.

Nick

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On 22 Mar 26 21:37, T.J. Mcmillen said the following to Matthew Munson:

Darkstar that was promoted on this echo 30
years ago.

Or a video of MAX graphics being used.

Why?

I'd like to see someone fire up TBBS, RoboBoard or Shotgun again.

Nick

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Nick Andre wrote to T.J. Mcmillen <=-

I'd like to see someone fire up TBBS, RoboBoard or Shotgun again.

I used to run Shotgun back in the day under OS/2. It worked quite well.

-- Sean

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Re: Idea for a youtube video series
By: Joe Stollings to Matthew Munson on Sun Mar 22 2026 05:14 pm

I've thought about setting up DarkStar just to play around with it and see its limits.

Record and post a screen-cap video if you get it working. :-)
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To: Joe Stollings
Re: Idea for a youtube video series
By: Joe Stollings to Matthew Munson on Sun Mar 22 2026 05:14 pm

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I've thought about setting up DarkStar just to play around with it and see its limits.

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I have it setup kinda in dosbox. I did the node cfg and it finds the data file. It just freezes during modem unit and all i have is atz for the string since Dosbox doesn't understand the longer default one.

Https://i.imgur.com/nC9fYrW.png

I'm not sure the bbs was every completed, too.

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Re: Re: Idea for a youtube video series
By: Nick Andre to Sean Dennis on Sat Mar 28 2026 20:41:59

I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old setups.

I love the wide selection of audio/video cards you can use. Very nice.
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Hello Nick,

28 Mar 26 20:41, you wrote to me:

I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old
setups.

How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

-- Sean

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On 31 Mar 2026, Sean Dennis said the following...

Hello Nick,

28 Mar 26 20:41, you wrote to me:

I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old setups.

How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

86-box is a full pc emulator.

for example, i can select the very first motherboard i purchased in there (ASUS P5A) fit it with the same cpu (AMD K6-2 400MHz) throw in a Sound Blaster 16 and a Matrox video card and install OS/2 on it.

it's a lot like a pc hardware toybox. for that it's awesome!

it strives to be fairly realistic though.. including options to make the simulated hard drive SLOWER.. ;)

probably not for BBS stuff unless you want to really feel like you're running it on old hardware, speed and all.

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On 31 Mar 26 21:34:39, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

Its a full-on PC emulator, not some silly DOS environment.

But mannnnnn... the types of setups to be emulated is very impressive.

Even emulates those quirky no-name Pentium boards I had fond memories of trying to get OS/2 to play nice on. Ohh how many weekends wasted on that...

Nick

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To: Sean Dennis
Re: Idea for a youtube video series
By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Tue Mar 31 2026 09:34 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

Hello Nick,

28 Mar 26 20:41, you wrote to me:

I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old
setups.

How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

-- Sean

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You just have to make sure that 2 users can't go in the door at the same time. My bbs software has that ability.

otherwise it works fine. I've been using it to run programs and shit via bbs dosbox and doorway for 20 or more years. They have been more stable than some regular doorgames. I do not recommend it unless you have no other options.


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Re: Idea for a youtube video series
By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Tue Mar 31 2026 09:34 pm

How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

86box is a system emulator, meaning it emulates the hardware and you can run whatever software you can manage to run on such emulated hardware.

You can expect the software you run within 86box to run pretty much as software running on a real legacy machine. In fact 86box is often used as a last ditch effort when solutions such as dosbox are not curring it.

It is computationally intensive so if you want to emulate anything modernish (say, a Pentium II) it might get taxing.


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Richard Falken wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

It is computationally intensive so if you want to emulate anything modernish (say, a Pentium II) it might get taxing.

My BBS runs on a HPE ProLiant ML110 G6 server which has a a quad-core Xeon X3430 CPU (2.40ghz) so it should be able to handle the load. However, I use DOSemu for a DOS emulator which works great. If I ever get around to setting up a FreeBSD machine, I'd definitely experiment.

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