![]() If you’re a Talisman sysop, add to an existing menu (e.g.Note, you must be signed up on Alpha Complex for this to work. Setup an outbound RLOGIN connection from a menu item on your BBS. □ Try it out/sign up over the web HERE! SETUP ON YOUR BBS ![]() Just fill out the form, and your BBS IP address will be queued for white-listing on the firewall, so you can then connect on port 513 via RLOGIN. Hell, join them all! JOIN GOLD MINEīBS SysOps can join by visiting :2323 with a terminal program like SyncTerm, NetRunner or MagiTerm. The other benefit is a potentially larger player base, aggregating them in a centralized manner.Īlso, please check out other door gamer servers like DoorParty, BBSLink, CombatNet, and Black Country Rock game servers. With direct-door launching, it feels like users never leave yuor BBS! It also suport Synchronet Javascript-based games. In fact, gOLD mINE can handle just about any kind of console-based game made for DOS, Linux or Windows. And Linux users, no need for DOSEMU shenanigans. So, a Door Server takes a lot of the work out of setup and lets you add 100’s of these games from a central service, almost immediately, running them over an RLOGIN connection that’s practically seamless for your users. ![]() And ARM-based systems like Raspberry Pi can’t even run dosemu, so you’d need to use programs like QEMU (powerful, but a complex setup for a BBS) or DOSBox (easier, but with no multi-node capabilities). Oh, and if your BBS runs on modern Windows 64-bit, well, unless you can figure out how to use experimental NTVDM圆4 and legacy FOSSIL drivers to run native 16-Bit DOS programs, your options are limited. Hunting down registration keys or cracks can be daunting (much is abandonware these days). In their heydey of the 1980’s and 90s, these games where designed to run under DOS (or Win32) and were pretty finicky. If you run an old-school, terminal-based BBS (probably using new-school BBS software like Mystic, Synchronet, Talisman or ENiGMA½) you know that setting up door game programs can be time consuming and a headache. It does one thing, and one thing only: launch games remotely for users from other BBSs. There are no message boards or file download areas, and you can’t “login” to it like a traditional BBS. It is not a BBS, despite using BBS software. GOLD mINE has Synchronet (Ubuntu 20.04 圆4) under the hood, and runs on port 513 at 165.232.153.209. Open to all, easy to access with modern BBS terminal software, like SyncTerm, MagiTerm or NetRunner. GOLD mINE (named after a coin-op arcade near where aLPHA grew up) is a terminal-based Community Door Server for BBS games.
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