Andrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017

Hi! I'm looking for examples of mainframe games.

(That is, multiplayer games that are played by the users of a shared server over ssh/telnet.)

Linux BBS games would also work, I guess. Games can be turn based or real time.

MUDs fall in to this box, as do a few games in the bsd-games package.

Whatcha got?

Show threadLes Orchard
@ajroach42 I used to have a Synchronet BBS running on a Linux server with an open ssh port and DOSEMU running what DOOR games would cooperate... I should try setting that up again someday
Aug 17, 2017 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017
@lmorchard that's essentially what I'm trying to do. You wanna help?
Show threadLes OrchardAug 17, 2017
@ajroach42 Hmm, maybe! I'm super rusty on how to get all the fiddly bits running. If it helps, this is the BBS software I used http://www.synchro.net/
Show threadLes OrchardAug 17, 2017
@ajroach42 Lots of fussy instructions for DOSEMU + synchronet here. Always thought it would be a big deal if someone managed to wrap it all up in a Docker container http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:dosemu
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017
@lmorchard Yeah, I remember reading through some of that. I may give it another shot this week, while I procrastinate a different project.
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017

@lmorchard I had a hard time figuring out how synchronet worked. I tried that and MysticBBS, but I couldn't wrap my head around either one.

It wasn't supposed to be *my* project. I was running the server, my buddy was supposed to run the BBS, but he bailed on the project and left me to implement.

I'd love to get an actual BBS installed.

Show threadLes OrchardAug 17, 2017
@ajroach42 Ah yeah, I'm probably a bad helper then, because I tend to set up a BBS and forget about it when I get busy at work and then it just bitrots :/
Show threadLes OrchardAug 17, 2017
@ajroach42 This is why I also have only a single-user mastodon instance. And also I'm a bad community maintainer :)
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017
@lmorchard :-) I'm good at communities, usually. I'm just not as good at arcane software as I'd like.
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Aug 17, 2017

@lmorchard

I probably would have been fine with that, but he never even got stuff set up.

Eventually, me and @iAmNoah managed to get the BBS installed, but it never worked right.