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 JH> To: Martin Kazmaier
 JH> Re: 32Bit GAC IBBS Games... By: Martin Kazmaier to Jas Hud on Mon Feb
 JH> 12 2024 09:42 am


 JH> >  JH> what doorgames? you mean GAC\vagabond software games?

 JH> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 JH> > Yes, I told you exactly what door games.  The 32 bit versions of GAC
 JH> > FreeCell, BlackJack and Wahoo!, which are IBBS games.  They are indeed
 JH> the
 JH> > GAC/Vagabond door games.  There are 32 bit versions included in the
 JH> > archives:

 JH> > gacbj230.zip, gacfc130.zip and gacwh130.zip

 JH> > I can't get them to work, only the 16 bit versions.  None of them pay
 JH> any
 JH> > attention to command line options and have to be ran as is in the
 JH> dropfile
 JH> > directory, so I can't send the -handle followed by the handle command
 JH> line
 JH> > option to the gac_bj32.exe (or replace bj with fc or wh) program
 JH> > executables...  Has anyone been able to get these to work?


 JH> they are pretty shitty old games, and i'm not sure they run correctly in
 JH> 32bit in the telnet age.  you can talk to deuce and see if he ever messed
 JH> with them.

 JH> i have however ran other opendoors doorgames.  maybe the tourney trivia
 JH> command lines would work for you.

 JH> --BEGIN-- EleBBS: ------ Assuming c:\doors\DOORGAME is your DOORGAME
 JH> directory, and c:\ele is your EleBBS directory, use a command
 JH> line of:

 JH> c:\doors\DOORGAME\DOORGAME32.exe -n *N -d c:\ele\NODE*N\door32.sys
 JH> -socket *W

 JH> In order for this door to work properly, you may need to lower the value
 JH> for
 JH>  Modem >> Telnet Start Node# in ELCONFIG, since this door does not
 JH> support node numbers higher than 99.

 JH> WINDOWS 95/98/ME:  Do *NOT* use a batch file to call this door.  Doing
 JH> so will not work on these operating systems. The door switches
 JH> to its own directory upon start-up anyway; thus there is no need
 JH> for a batch file!

I get unable to access serial port.  I'm using -handle *W (as the gac docs
say) and -c pointing to the config file. -socket *W gave me the same error.

Thanks much, man!  Has anyone been able to get these working?  I'll stick
with 16 bit, but I like as many 32 bit doors as possible...

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