Hello everybody!


I am unable to get any JNS games to run under Ubuntu, dosemu2. I have gotten most of my other dos games to work, Sunrise and a bunch of other classic doors working. Can anyone share there sbbs cfg and the games cfg setting for one JNS game (5 Card Poker maybe) with me?

This is all running under Ubuntu, with dosemu2.

Thanks,
RickV


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RickV wrote to All <=-

I am unable to get any JNS games to run under Ubuntu, dosemu2. I have gotten most of my other dos games to work, Sunrise and a bunch of other classic doors working. Can anyone share there sbbs cfg and the games
cfg setting for one JNS game (5 Card Poker maybe) with me?

I have those doors running with (original) dosemu, and shared my configs
with you already. I take it that didn't work? I suppose there may be differences in how dosemu/dosemu2 handle things, but it works fine here.



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Hello Dan!

23 Aug 26 12:59, you wrote to me:

RickV wrote to All <=-

I am unable to get any JNS games to run under Ubuntu, dosemu2. I
have gotten most of my other dos games to work, Sunrise and a
bunch of other classic doors working. Can anyone share there sbbs
cfg and the games
cfg setting for one JNS game (5 Card Poker maybe) with me?

I have those doors running with (original) dosemu, and shared my
configs with you already. I take it that didn't work? I suppose
there may be differences in how dosemu/dosemu2 handle things, but it
works fine here.

I did see your cfg's setting. I tried those, but I think that with dosemu2 it's different. I do have 3/4's of my doors working but for some reason the JNS doors just won't work. It's just so easy to get them all to work under Windows 11 I should just run my system with that.

My next question is menus in the external menus setting coming in another message. :-)

RickV


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Re: Ubuntu/JNS Door Games/dosemu2
By: RickV to All on Thu Aug 20 2026 11:40 pm

I am unable to get any JNS games to run under Ubuntu, dosemu2. I have gotten most of my other dos games to work, Sunrise and a bunch of other classic doors working. Can anyone share there sbbs cfg and the games cfg setting for one JNS game (5 Card Poker maybe) with me?

This is all running under Ubuntu, with dosemu2.

What happens when they run? Does dosemu2 launch and produce an error message?

I run my BBS in Linux Mint (very similar to Ubuntu), and I use dosemu2. I have some of the JNS doors installed and working.

This is my SBBS config for Tri-Bingo:

Name : Tri-Bingo
Internal code : TRIBINGO
Start-up Directory : ../../doors/TRIBINGO
Command Line : DOOR.BAT %#
Multiple concurrent users : Yes
Native Executable : No
I/O Method : FOSSIL or UART
Use Shell or New Context : Yes
BBS Drop File Type: DOOR.SYS (52 lines)
Place drop file in : Node Directory

This is the DOOR.BAT I use for Tri-Bingo (note: Your drive letter & directory may be different)
@ECHO OFF
E:
CD \TRIBINGO
SET TBNODE=%1
TRIBINGO.EXE TRIBINGO.CFG


And my TRIBINGO.CFG:
1
Y
Digital Distortion
Eric Oulashin
DOOR.SYS
D:\
LOG
E:\TRIBINGO\SCORES.ANS
E:\TRIBINGO\SCORES.ASC
GAP
Registered
70
3
10
11


One thing I do to debug dosemu2 stuff is, I created a script so that I
can manually launch it with the same settings I use for Synchronet, and then within dosemu2, I go to the door directory and manually try to run it and see what happens - Then I may be more easily able to see any error messages produced.

After looking at my configuration & batch file, I remember these doors are unique in that there is an environment variable set in the batch file before running the door (in this case, TBNODE). Did you do that for your JNS doors? I think that's a unique thing about these JNS doors.

Nightfox

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Hello Nightfox!

01 Mar 71 00:52, you wrote to me:

Re: Ubuntu/JNS Door Games/dosemu2
By: RickV to All on Thu Aug 20 2026 11:40 pm

I am unable to get any JNS games to run under Ubuntu, dosemu2. I
have gotten most of my other dos games to work, Sunrise and a
bunch of other classic doors working. Can anyone share there sbbs
cfg and the games cfg
setting for one JNS game (5 Card Poker maybe) with me?

This is all running under Ubuntu, with dosemu2.

What happens when they run? Does dosemu2 launch and produce an error message?

I run my BBS in Linux Mint (very similar to Ubuntu), and I use
dosemu2. I have some of the JNS doors installed and working.

This is my SBBS config for Tri-Bingo:

Name : Tri-Bingo
Internal code : TRIBINGO
Start-up Directory : ../../doors/TRIBINGO
Command Line : DOOR.BAT %#
Multiple concurrent users : Yes
Native Executable : No
I/O Method : FOSSIL or UART
Use Shell or New Context : Yes
BBS Drop File Type: DOOR.SYS (52 lines)
Place drop file in : Node Directory

This is the DOOR.BAT I use for Tri-Bingo (note: Your drive letter & directory may be different) @ECHO OFF
E:
CD \TRIBINGO
SET TBNODE=%1
TRIBINGO.EXE TRIBINGO.CFG

And my TRIBINGO.CFG:
1
Y
Digital Distortion
Eric Oulashin
DOOR.SYS
D:\
LOG
E:\TRIBINGO\SCORES.ANS
E:\TRIBINGO\SCORES.ASC
GAP
Registered
70
3
10
11

One thing I do to debug dosemu2 stuff is, I created a script so that I
can manually launch it with the same settings I use for Synchronet,
and then within dosemu2, I go to the door directory and manually try
to run it and see what happens - Then I may be more easily able to see
any error messages produced.

After looking at my configuration & batch file, I remember these doors
are unique in that there is an environment variable set in the batch
file before running the door (in this case, TBNODE). Did you do that
for your JNS doors? I think that's a unique thing about these JNS
doors.

Nightfox

Thanks Eric. I went to your system and got Tri-Bingo, installed it and set my setups just like yours, double checked everything but still doesn't work. All my JNS games start to load but sit there at a blank screen. I have to ctrl-c to return to the BBS. If I had any hair left I'd be pulling it all out! There all work great under Windows 11. I did copy your sbbs cfg, door.bat file and the TRIBINGO.CFG with the correct paths for dosemu2.

RickV


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