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This guide is aimed at Raspbian Linux (Stretch) on Raspberry PI. In this example, I will be configuring for MagickaBBS and Tiny's Hangman game.
ExaGear is in the official raspberry pi repositories, so installing it is easy:
sudo apt-get install exagear-desktop
You will also need to install a license from eltechs, if you are not running headless you can use a 3 day trial.
The default installation of ExaGear seems to use Debian 8 as the guest system. DOSEMU is in the contrib repository which is not enabled by default, so you need to edit the sources.list inside the guest image.
sudo vi /opt/exagear/images/debian-8/etc/apt/sources.list
Add contrib to the end of the line like this:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian jessie main contrib
Now run exagear:
exagear
And install dosemu:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install dosemu
First, run dosemu once to create /home/pi/.dosemu/ paths then modify the supplied autoexec.bat.
This is my autoexec.bat (in /home/pi/.dosemu/drive_c/)
@echo off break=off path z:\bin;z:\gnu;z:\dosemu set HELPPATH=z:\help set TEMP=c:\tmp prompt $P$G lredir del d: > nul lredir d: linux\fs/home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors unix -e
Firstly you want a dosemu.conf for calling the door, I use the same one for calling all my dos doors.
This is my dosemu.conf (in /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/)
$_cpu = "80486" $_cpu_emu = "vm86" $_external_char_set = "utf8" $_internal_char_set = "cp437" $_term_updfreq = (8) $_layout = "us" $_rawkeyboard = (0) $_com1 = "virtual"
You will need both THANG23B.ZIP and BNU170.ZIP
First unzip BNU170.ZIP in /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/bnu
Then unzip THANG23B.ZIP in /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/thang
copy the executables from /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/thang/dos to /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/thang
Next Configure Tiny's Hangman by editing THANG.CFG. Note: I use dorinfo1.def but you could just as easily use door.sys.
Now create a batch file that we will use to launch tiny's hangman from DOS.
@echo off D: CD \BNU BNU /L0=11520 CD \THANG THANG /N%1 /DD:\THANG\NODE%1 exitemu
create the following sub directories in THANG
mkdir node1 mkdir node2 mkdir node3 mkdir node4
until you have a directory for each node.
Finally, the script for running tinys hangman, thang.sh
#!/bin/bash NODE=$1 cp /home/pi/MagickaBBS/node${NODE} /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/thang/node${NODE}/ exagear -- /usr/bin/dosemu -quiet -f /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/dosemu.conf -I "dosbanner 0" -E "D:\THANG\THANG.BAT ${NODE}" 2>/dev/null
You can then edit your doors.ini to include:
[Tinys Hangman] command = /home/pi/MagickaBBS/doors/thang.sh stdio = true
and finally edit doors.mnu
HOTKEY 1 COMMAND RUNDOOR DATA Tinys Hangman
Then restart Magicka and you should be able to run Tinys Hangman by pressing 1 on the doors menu. Please note it takes a while to start up.