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    From Alonzo@21:1/130 to All on Mon Jan 2 18:22:28 2023
    I've had a lot of trouble installing doors on my Mystic BBS. I can't run 32 bit programs on my 64-bit computer so I thought the answer was to use Netfoss, but of course Netfoss won't run in 64-bit either. So what's the answer? Does my Windows 10 operating system need to be 32-bit? I tried installing the operating system again - thought I could pick to install it as a 32-bit OS but I didn't see a chance to install it as 32-bit. Did I miss something?

    Also, what do you have to make copies of when you are backing up a Mystic BBS? I tried to copy only the files in the C:\MYSTIC directory but that messed me up for a while. I finally got the BBS working again but it was a pain. Any ideas for running doors?

    Alono, Sysop of The Unmrked Van in Mt. Healthy, Ohio - running Mystic BBS Telnet: woofer.v6.rocks

    ... Electricity is really just organized lightning.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: The Unmarked Van (21:1/130)
  • From esc@21:4/173 to Alonzo on Mon Jan 2 16:39:49 2023
    I've had a lot of trouble installing doors on my Mystic BBS. I can't run 32 bit programs on my 64-bit computer so I thought the answer was to use Netfoss, but of course Netfoss won't run in 64-bit either. So what's the answer? Does my Windows 10 operating system need to be 32-bit? I tried installing the operating system again - thought I could pick to install
    it as a 32-bit OS but I didn't see a chance to install it as 32-bit. Did
    I miss something?

    The trouble is that Microsoft removed NTVDM support and you need to do some real hacky stuff to get NTVDM support back - http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ntvdmx64.html

    What I have is a 32 bit Windows 7 VPS slice hosting all of my DOS doorgames. It works well and I don't have to change core parts of my OS to do so.

    Also, what do you have to make copies of when you are backing up a
    Mystic BBS? I tried to copy only the files in the C:\MYSTIC directory
    but that messed me up for a while. I finally got the BBS working again
    but it was a pain. Any ideas for running doors?

    I run backup scripts using rsync in linux but not Windows, sorry, can't help ya :) I'm sure there is some Windows backup 3rd party thing you could use and point it at your Mystic directory.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: m O N T E R E Y b B S . c O M (21:4/173)
  • From alonzo@21:3/126 to esc on Tue Jan 3 02:30:23 2023
    Hey, thanks a lot for the info. I'll try to get this straightened out.

    ... As I said before, I never repeat myself

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: TheForze - bbs.theforze.eu:23 (21:3/126)
  • From Alonzo@21:1/130 to esc on Tue Jan 3 09:23:12 2023
    That gives me a few ideas. I could run the doors off something separate from the BBS itself. Thanks for the suggestions.

    ... A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. Asks: 'Can I join you?'

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: The Unmarked Van (21:1/130)
  • From bamageek@21:1/140 to Alonzo on Fri Jan 6 20:11:03 2023
    I've had a lot of trouble installing doors on my Mystic BBS. I can't run 32 bit programs on my 64-bit computer so I thought the answer was to use Netfoss, but of course Netfoss won't run in 64-bit either. So what's the answer? Does my Windows 10 operating system need to be 32-bit? I tried installing the operating system again - thought I could pick to install
    it as a 32-bit OS but I didn't see a chance to install it as 32-bit. Did
    I miss something?

    My base system is running 64 bit Windows 11 but I am running Windows 10 32-bit on a VirtualBox VM. The BBS is actually on the main sysetm's D Drive which is also mapped as a shared Folder on the VM. It seems to work well for me. I used to keep the BBS on a Virtual disk directly on the VM but seemed to have issues with file corruption.

    Regarding re-installing Windows 32 bit were you doing a clean install when you tried to install it or trying to upgrade the existing install? Also, make sure you booted from a bootable DVD or USB if you go that route

    ... We all live in a yellow subroutine...

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/25 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Dave's BBS (21:1/140)