• Yankee Trader

    From David Smith@1:123/180 to All on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 09:54:51
    Anyone have any luck setting up Yankee Trader in Mystic/Windows?

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  • From Craig Hendricks@1:226/18 to David Smith on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 09:18:17
    Re: Yankee Trader
    By: David Smith to All on Tue May 24 2022 09:54 am

    Anyone have any luck setting up Yankee Trader in Mystic/Windows?

    I've found that DOSBox-X is the best way to run Yankee Trader reliably. I have two active games on my Synchronet board that have been in progress for nearly two years now. Two expert players in particular have logged in night after night and haven't been able to crash it.

    My setup is documented here: https://conchaos.synchro.net/yt_info.html

    I have not tested this setup in Mystic, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work, as long as you know how to include the socket handle in the command line.

    Good luck, I'm interested in knowing if it works for you.

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  • From David Smith@1:123/180 to Craig Hendricks on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 14:57:24
    I've found that DOSBox-X is the best way to run Yankee Trader reliably.
    I have two active games on my Synchronet board that have been in
    progress for nearly two years now. Two expert players in particular have logged in night after night and haven't been able to crash it.

    I saw some instructions on setting up on DOSBox with Synchronet but I assumed that was for a linux system. Maybe I should go back and give that a shot.

    Thanks!

    Dave

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  • From Jas Hud@1:103/705 to David Smith on Wednesday, May 25, 2022 23:29:46
    To: David Smith
    Re: Re: Yankee Trader
    By: David Smith to Craig Hendricks on Wed May 25 2022 02:57 pm

    I've found that DOSBox-X is the best way to run Yankee Trader reliably. I have two active games on my Synchronet board that have been in progress for nearly two years now. Two expert players in particular have logged in night after night and haven't been able to crash it.

    I saw some instructions on setting up on DOSBox with Synchronet but I assumed that was for a linux system. Maybe I should go back and give that a shot.

    Thanks!

    Dave


    no, i use dosbox to run a monopoly dos game on my bbs and also i have those infocom games.
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  • From Greg Youngblood@1:123/131 to Craig Hendricks on Friday, March 03, 2023 17:31:58
    Re: Yankee Trader
    By: Craig Hendricks to David Smith on Wed May 25 2022 09:18 am

    Good luck, I'm interested in knowing if it works for you.

    I got it setup and running on my board thanks to getting the file
    from Fool's Quarter!

    Seems to run file on dosemu...
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