I wrote a how-to based on my experience setting up fsxNet w/Enigma (as a N00b) in the hopes it might help others. Obviously this crowd ain't the target audience, but hoping to encourage other new sysops to give it a go. Thinking about how Avon's Mystic tutorials really de-mystified (lol) things for me in the early days.

Unfortunately, this article is long-winded, veers into phlosophical musings and probably needs a bit of fact-checking. In other words, it's totally me.

Open to critiques/edits! Also, I realize that Medium may not be the best place for this article.

https://bit.ly/31MWcZY

Cheers,

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...The Drunken Gamer BBS
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.18.3)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer (21:4/158)

I wrote a how-to based on my experience setting up fsxNet w/Enigma (as a N00b) in the hopes it might help others. Obviously this crowd ain't the target audience, but hoping to encourage other new sysops to give it a
go. Thinking about how Avon's Mystic tutorials really de-mystified (lol) things for me in the early days.

Unfortunately, this article is long-winded, veers into phlosophical musings and probably needs a bit of fact-checking. In other words, it's totally me.

Open to critiques/edits! Also, I realize that Medium may not be the best place for this article.

https://bit.ly/31MWcZY

Cheers,

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I really enjoyed playing with ENiGMA and think its a great software. I'm learning python right now, or else I would really be interested in working
with ENiGMA... however, I want to checkout your writeup and good on you for doing so.

The developer is very keen on getting community help - maybe you could ask
him to let you write infos for the wiki... he was open to it when I was
tooling around with 1/2.



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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 2020/02/18 (Raspberry Pi/32)
* Origin: American Pi BBS (21:2/150)

On 01 Sep 2020 at 04:58p, paulie420 pondered and said...

Open to critiques/edits! Also, I realize that Medium may not be the b place for this article.

The developer is very keen on getting community help - maybe you could
ask him to let you write infos for the wiki... he was open to it when I was tooling around with 1/2.

There's also a Wiki at wiki.bbs.nz that would happily accept this sort of
info. To be fair it needs quite a bit of work and has not seen much attention for a while.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

On Tuesday, September 1st Alpha said...

Unfortunately, this article is long-winded, veers into phlosophical musings and probably needs a bit of fact-checking. In other words, it's totally me.
Open to critiques/edits! Also, I realize that Medium may not be the best place for this article.
https://bit.ly/31MWcZY

Just started reading, this is great! I love this kind of thing.

...and as for the official docs, please don't hesitate to create PRs for improvements! Writing docs from the developer perspective isn't always the greatest hehe



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Xibalba BBS @ xibalba.l33t.codes / 44510(telnet) 44511(ssh)
ENiGMA 1/2 BBS WHQ | Phenom | 67 | iMPURE | ACiDic

--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.13.1)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)

On 09/03/2020 12:00 am NuSkooler said...

Just started reading, this is great! I love this kind of thing.

...and as for the official docs, please don't hesitate to create PRs for improvements! Writing docs from the developer perspective isn't always the greatest hehe

Enigma docs are great from a user perspective! There is so much packed into that docs repo. But I've been looking at places where I might be able to add a PR as well. Thanks!


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...Alpha / Robbie
...The Drunken Gamer BBS
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--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.18.3)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer (21:4/158)

On Thursday, September 3rd Alpha muttered...

Enigma docs are great from a user perspective! There is so much packed into that docs repo. But I've been looking at places where I might be able to add a PR as well. Thanks!

One of the issues I have slowly been attempting to address is the doc fragmentation. Topic A relatest to B and C, but they aren't necessairly referenced.

Anyway, read your entire write up and quite enjoyed it. Hope you don't mind, I posted it all over the FB BBS groups as well hehe



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Xibalba BBS @ xibalba.l33t.codes / 44510(telnet) 44511(ssh)
ENiGMA 1/2 BBS WHQ | Phenom | 67 | iMPURE | ACiDic

--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.13.1)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)

On 09/05/2020 4:15 pm NuSkooler said...

One of the issues I have slowly been attempting to address is the doc fragmentation. Topic A relatest to B and C, but they aren't necessairly referenced.

Don't mind at all! And thanks for stopping by. I'm going to get better about "getting to the point" and be more how-to than commentary on my next one. Was thinking about writing a guide to DOS doors (or just doors in general) w/Enigma, as I've had quite a bit of sweat-equity into exploring all the options, LOL, connecting to door servers, setting up my own door server with GameSrv and SBBS, dosemu, qemu, etc.

Cheers,


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...Alpha / Robbie
...The Drunken Gamer BBS
...thedrunkengamer.com:8888
--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.18.3)
* Origin: The Drunken Gamer (21:4/158)

On Saturday, September 5th Alpha said...

Don't mind at all! And thanks for stopping by. I'm going to get better about "getting to the point"

Part of the tangents and historical information are what make your writeup great in my opinion =p





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NuSkooler
Xibalba BBS @ xibalba.l33t.codes / 44510(telnet) 44511(ssh)
ENiGMA 1/2 BBS WHQ | Phenom | 67 | iMPURE | ACiDic

--- ENiGMA 1/2 v0.0.12-beta (linux; x64; 12.13.1)
* Origin: Xibalba -+- xibalba.l33t.codes:44510 (21:1/121)