The DNDBBS Project

[John]

If a conversion to a web app was considered, the period could be replaced with an underscore.

[Azathoth]

Understood.. I'm aware most C dialects use underscore..

[John]

I'm not sure why Peter Verhas made the period a reserve symbol. Maybe he had future plans.

I have been wanting to remove the period from the reserve symbol list and gi e it wa try.

[Azathoth]

If you are thinking of running dndbbs in anything other than VBpro, Good Luck (you'll need it);

I have considered for awhile about converting it to qb64 for 32-bit support, but it has 300,000+ lines of code,
and would take years to translate (if at all)..

Az.

[John]

Sounds like a major investment of the past. I wouldn't consider porting it to another desktop language and you should take it to the web.

You should at least convert the modem stuff to TCP sockets.

[John]

DOS Networking HOWTO

Networking, DOSemu and taprouter

[Azathoth]

Well, since the v5 series was released in 2015 after the v2 series in 1990 (work started on 1980),
I really have no intention of spending anymore time on it concerning anything other than being a modem based system.

Az.

[John]

I can't even remember the last time I used a modem.

[Azathoth]

There's still a market out there for modems (56K), multi-modem racks, and multi-port serial cards..

I actually ran one in a resource center awhile back..

Az.

[John]

Maybe dosemu running DnDBBS will be the motivation you need to set up a Linux box.

[Azathoth]

It won't -- I still have XP.

[John]

Does XP run multiple copies of DnDBBS like dosemu can?

[John]

Can I run VBDOS on XP?

[Azathoth]

Yes, VBdos will run in XP, and,

yes, multiple cmd.exe windows can run in XP if
dndbbs called with node on command line.

[John]

The way it looks to me is you're still running DnDBBS on non-supported OSs that may break with no way to resolve it. Time is your enemy.

For the little DOS / QBasic programming I do any more, dosemu is just another resource on my Linux development desktop.