Subj : Re: TradeWars 2002 in Dosemu on Linux
To : Apam
From : Zero Reader
Date : Mon Jun 06 2022 09:11 am
On 06 Jun 2022, Apam said the following...
Ap> Cool, though that's a bit weird that it works.. do you have dosemu2 not
Ap> outputting serial on stdout?
Agreed. I'm surprised any of it works! As far as I know it's using stdout, as that's what Mystic/Linux uses, if I recall.
All my games use that 1>/dev/null trick or else they output "dosemu dosemu dosemu" repeatedly when the game closes. I use -t on the dosemu command line -- I'm not sure how or why it's all working to be honest. It took me a good bit of trial and error to get things working the way they are. Me and a couple other folks play the games daily and everything seems OK.
I can share my dosemurc file if you're interested. But I don't think there's anything unusual in there. Com port 1 is set to virtual, and there are a couple tweaks to turn off things that aren't needed, like joystick support.
Ap> Is Usurper .25 an earlier version than the one with the linux port?
The Linux version still has issues outputting extra linefeeds, at least on my Mystic setup. So I went to the latest DOS version, which is .25 -- and it seems to be working quite well!
-ZR
... One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
