So, I kind of can't believe I banged my head against this until it worked:
1) QEMU x86 on RaspPi
2) FreeDOS on QEMU x86
3) MS Net Client 3.0 on FreeDOS
4) Host Samba drive mounted via MS Net Client 3.0
5) BBS Door game running from mounted Samba share
6) Linux build of Synchronet BBS running parallel DOS door game processes on Rasp Pi with shared files for multiplayer in Legend of the Red Dragon
Got to be a better way to do it, but this seems to be working-ish for now.
The hell of it is that I barely understand the stack. I just kind of blundered through READMEs and downloaded random .zip files until it worked.
But then, maybe that was The DOS Experience from back in the day. I was an Amiga user who skipped over MS-DOS to Windows 95, so I think I missed out?
And, of course, the reason for all of this is...
Because I can't seem to otherwise mount the same directory as a filesystem between parallel QEMU / FreeDOS processes.
Because I'm trying to do this on a non-x86 Raspberry Pi living in a little RetroPie emulation bartop arcade cab.
Because I thought emulating old DOS BBS games would be thematically appropriate on it.
Because I am not sensible, apparently.
@fluffy Heh, yeah I seem to have better muscle memory or whatever for Amiga stuff. I guess that's mostly a monolith of a computer, so not many drivers or IRQs or memory options or whatever to deal with
@tithonium Well, you'd probably get other sysops to call it :) There's a weird community of folks running telnet BBSes who all "call" each other's boards
@craigmaloney Yeah, I even kind of worked for a multi-node BBS back in the late 90s. But, I did more with the Linux side of things as they transitioned more into an ISP and I never really touched the BBS itself
@craigmaloney Funny thing, if I recall, was at some point the BBS was technically a telnet host as dozens of standalone modems ended up plugged into little terminal servers rather than into the BBS PC itself
@darius Heh, you're welcome! Hoping to keep it running and add more games if I don't go insane doing it
@craigmaloney Haha, I found an old old picture of what was basically my dial-up local Facebook in the 90s :) I think this was just before the thing got moved to a proper office and blew up with 100 or so more phone lines https://nuxx.net/gallery/v/people/industrybbs/industrybbs_photoarchive/i_put_1.jpg.html
@craigmaloney Looks like Industry BBS is listed on that page too, though I'd say it technically ran from 1991 til probably 1999 or so. Even as the PPP dialup ISP and web hosting stuff took off, the old BBS kept kicking
@fluffy Well, unfortunately, once I introduced a virtual network card to get to a shared directory, there was a little bit of that genre of jiggery-pokery
@Jessicacrets@mastodon.xyz Congratulations!
*looks shiftily back and forth*
[whispering]
I don't get Kingdom Hearts
Caught up on Steven Universe last night. I need MOAR OBSIDIAN
@tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org Oh, this sounds like my kind of jam. Will have to check it out after work!
Another quick sneaky stream of Chiptunes & Coding as I try to figure out a new schedule for myself (or any schedule at all)
