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Dos Doors with DOSEMU
DOSEMU only runs on Linux/x86, if you're running on another platform, try the DOSBOX tutorial.
In this example, I will be configuring for MagickaBBS and Tiny's Hangman game.
Install DOSEMU
Depending on your distribution, this command will be different. On ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install dosemu
Should do the trick.
Configure DOSEMU
First, run dosemu once to create /home/someuser/.dosemu/ paths then modify the supplied autoexec.bat.
This is my autoexec.bat (in /home/someuser/.dosemu/drive_c/)
@echo off
break=off
path z:\bin;z:\gnu;z:\dosemu
set HELPPATH=z:\help
set TEMP=c:\tmp
prompt $P$G
lredir del d: > nul
lredir d: linux\fs/home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors
unix -e
Step 4. Configure a Door =====
Firstly you want a dosemu.conf for calling the door, I use the same one for calling all my dos doors.
This is my dosemu.conf (in /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/)
$_cpu = "80486"
$_cpu_emu = "vm86"
$_external_char_set = "utf8"
$_internal_char_set = "cp437"
$_term_updfreq = (8)
$_layout = "us"
$_rawkeyboard = (0)
$_com1 = "virtual"
You will need both THANG23B.ZIP and BNU170.ZIP
First unzip BNU170.ZIP in /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/bnu
Then unzip THANG23B.ZIP in /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/thang
copy the executables from /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/thang/dos to /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/thang
Next Configure Tiny's Hangman by editing THANG.CFG. Note: I use dorinfo1.def but you could just as easily use door.sys.
Now create a batch file that we will use to launch tiny's hangman from DOS.
@echo off
D:
CD \BNU
BNU /L0=11520
CD \THANG
THANG /N%1 /DD:\THANG\NODE%1
exitemu
create the following sub directories in THANG
mkdir node1
mkdir node2
mkdir node3
mkdir node4
until you have a directory for each node.
Finally, the script for running tinys hangman, thang.sh
#!/bin/bash
NODE=$1
cp /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/node${NODE}/dorinfo1.def /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/thang/node${NODE}/
/usr/bin/dosemu -quiet -f /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/dosemu.conf -I "dosbanner 0" -E "D:\THANG\THANG.BAT ${NODE}" 2>/dev/null
You can then edit your doors.ini to include:
[Tinys Hangman]
command = /home/someuser/MagickaBBS/doors/thang.sh
stdio = true
and finally edit doors.mnu
HOTKEY 1
COMMAND RUNDOOR
DATA Tinys Hangman
Then restart Magicka and you should be able to run Tinys Hangman by pressing 1 on the doors menu.