Subj : Totally Confused...
To   : Digital Man
From : Martin Kazmaier
Date : Fri Dec 19 2025 05:37 pm


* In a message originally to Martin Kazmaier, Digital Man said:

> Re: Totally Confused... By: Martin Kazmaier to All on Fri Dec 19 2025
> 08:00 am

>  > I simply want to start doors from rlogin connections.  They're all .js.

> .js written for Synchronet specifically?

>  > I can't figure out any of this.

> Did you read https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:game_server ?


Yes.

>  > The whole logon sequence appears even though I disabled most of it.

> Where?

In the ctrl file.

>  > The games don't start, I get an error that it's not found due to the
>  > way I've got the path and door game name separate.

> What's the error message?

I got around that.

>  > Do I need to start them with jsexec?

> No.

>  > I've got tons of questions and couldn't find any answers on the wiki
>  > searching for my questions...  I've got
> 3.20d I
>  > think.

>  > Sorry, I'm in over my head...  I really thought this would be self
>  > explanatory and a piece of cake.  I just want to have my users be able
> to
>  > access .js arcade games locally.  I just need one working example for
>  > startrek, gooble gooble, chicken delivery or Lemons.

> If you want an rlogin client to go *directly* to a specific door game,
> then the rlogin *client* needs to specify the internal code of that door
> (xtrn) in the Rlogin terminal string, as documented in the above wiki
> page.


Yes, the door is starting after the bulletins and other things appear, right
before the menu would.  I'm using xtrn=GOOBLE as an example.

> If you want all rlogin clients to go directly to your door game menu,
> that's also described on that wiki page.

>  > I should be able to figure it out from there. Plus how to disable
>  > all of the new user
> messages
>  > and prompting...

> Can you be more specific? Some new user messages/prompts can be disabled
> in
> SCFG->System-> New User Prompts, some are disabled through text string
> customization (e.g. via ctrl/text.ini file), others via JS modifications
> or modopts settings. -- digital man (rob)

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