Subj : Running xtrn Games
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue May 30 2023 10:29 am

 Re: Running xtrn Games
 By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Tue May 30 2023 08:48 am

>   Re: Running xtrn Games
>   By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Mon May 29 2023 03:03 pm
>
>  >> Yeah, typically it's SBBSEXEC.DLL that you'd have to copy to
>  >> c:\windodows\system32, not a fossil driver.
>
>  DM> SBBSEXEC.DLL is the 32-bit portion of the Synchronet Virtual
>  DM> UART/FOSSIL driver. And it's automatically copied to the Windows
>  DM> system32 director upon install (and has been very *many* years/versions
>  DM> of Synchronet).
>
> Ah.  I only ever ran the installer once when I first installed Synchronet in
> 2007.  Over the years, I'd moved my BBS to different PCs (physical and
> virtual) several times, so I'd manually copy that DLL (I didn't think there
> would be a need to run the installer again).

And that's correct, if you manually install or copy sbbs to a new Windows computer, you *may* have to copy the sbbsexec.dll to the Windows/System32 directory (depending on the version of Windows NTVDM).
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