Subj : Javascript TW2
To : Dumas Walker
From : Digital Man
Date : Sat Dec 30 2017 11:34 am
Re: Javascript TW2
By: Dumas Walker to ALL on Sat Dec 30 2017 11:05 am
> Good morning,
> I am attempting to get the JS version of TW2 up and running with
> Synchronet. Using the directions in the SYSOP.TXT file, I run the
> following command:
>
> /sbbs/exec/jsexec /sbbs/xtrn/tw2/twint500.js
>
> That pops open a window with a blue-and-yellow screen, similar to SCFG,
> that says TradeWars 2 Initialization at the top left, and the date & time
> at the top right. The only thing in the middle of the screen is a very small
> blue-and-yellow box. There are no options listed in the box. The only
> thing I can do on that screen is press ESC twice to exit.
>
> Shouldn't there be some options in there? :)
>
> From the output in the lxterminal window, I am running JSexec v3.17a-Linux
> (rev 1.184) Compiled Nov 4 2017 13:52:09 with GCC 6.3.0; JavaScript-C 1.8.5
> 2011-03-31. JSON client is v1.29.
The problem you're describing was fixed on Nov-17:
http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/src/sbbs3/js_uifc.c
So you just need to cvs-update and recompile. :-)
digital man
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