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 Message 675 
 James Coyle to Edmund Wong 
 Re: old door games setup on x64 bbs 
 27 Nov 21 14:35:23 
 
TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47
MSGID: 1:129/215 c2de079c
REPLY: 1:153/7083 e7286efa
TZUTC: -0500
 EW> I downloaded Exitilus v3.17 on to a Win x64 system; but both the
 EW> INSTALL.exe and EXSETUP.EXE can't be run under this operating system
 EW> (I'm guessing it's 16bit).  I also tried running StarFight on this
 EW> system but the main binary couldn't run.
 EW> 
 EW> Is it possible to run these doors under a Mystic x64 BBS? 

There is a windows_door_install that talks about this stuff and goes over some
options, although it doesn't talk about using DosBox which some have tried.

In general though, Microsoft Windows cannot run DOS programs in its 64-bit
version.  Its not a Mystic thing, its a Windows thing in this case.  32-bit
Windows up to Windows 10 can still run DOS programs and Mystic will run them
in the same way you'd set them up in DOS.

There is some effort by some to hack a DOS emulator for Windows 64 that is
mentioned in the windows_door_install.txt in the docs folder in the latest
version and you can try to do that, or you can run 32-bit Windows, or you can
try DosBox (although I have little to no experience with the latter because it
doesn't work well with multiple nodes)

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