9 Dec
2013
9 Dec
'13
10:20 a.m.
I tried running MajorBBS under it, on Linux. DosBox would get slower
and slower and the whole thing would grind to halt after a while. I
suspected some sort of memory leak.
This was a big problem with that version of MajorBBS, as it uses
btrieve and if it dies it tends to corrupt it's databases.
I rebuilt the whole thing using a beta version of freedos with network
support, and it's been fine every since.
On 9 December 2013 17:43, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 03:50:28PM +0000, John Many
Jars wrote:
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I had real problems running non gaming stuff in
Dosbox (majorBBS in
particular).
What kinds of problems? I'm surprised by the fact that DOSbox (officially,
apparently) is only for games, because DOS games play all kinds of evil tricks
with the hardware and you'd think once they work, pretty much everything would
work. Was it the COM ports?
John Wilson
D Bit