Subj : Re: the woes and whims o
To   : Dale Shipp
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Tue Dec 03 2019 07:50 am

-=> Dale Shipp wrote to August Abolins <=-

DS> The way that I read the echos is to download a QWK packet from Maximus.
DS> I then read that packet using BlueWave in my WinXP virtual box.  Pretty
DS> much every thing else I want to do with respect to my BBS does run just
DS> fine in Win7, perhaps with some help from a DOS emulator called vDOS.
DS> Unfortunately, although BlueWave can run under vDOS, it does not act
DS> quite the same in a way that is critical to me.

I'm pretty happy with my setup - I use DOSBOX and Windows 10 in concert.

1. I download a QWK packet using the ftp client in Windows 10.

2. Open DOSBOX in full-screen, and run MultiMail, Qedit, and all of my old
DOS tools.

3. Close Multimail and create a REP packet.

4. Upload the REP packet in Windows 10.

I could never get archivers to work correctly in vDOS, but I loved the
screen appearance. I found a couple of tweaks to DOSBOX to smooth the
screen fonts and make it a bit less jaggedy.

DOSBOX lets you connect a serial port to a IP port on the host, so you could
connect port 23 to COMM1, and telnet by typing in ATDT <name of the BBS>. I
couldn't get ZModem working well enough; if I did I could skip the command-
line FTP steps.

It does a great job of mirroring how I called my BBS and others back in the
dial-up/DOS days.


... Are they real, the things I experienced?
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