On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 12:22:36 -0700
"Jason Van Horne" (VERT) <VERT!Jason.Van.Horne@endofthelinebbs.com>
wrote:

> I've been looking for a way to make Infocom games available to my
> MajorBBS users and also allow them the ability to save and load their
> games - so their progress isn't lost when they log out. Has anyone
> found a way of doing this? I've found Frotzdoor, but have not been
> able to dive deeply into it yet. Would really love to see this become
> a reality... we run MBBSV10 on a WIndows 2019 server... I think Frotz
> needs Linux?? If there's anyone familiar with BBSs and Infocom
> games/doors/porting... I'd be willing to discuss compensating
> someones time, as best I could, to get an solution up and running.
> Thanks for a good thread! Nice to see people still into the old
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This may not be of use to you but it might be to someone.

With Synchronet on Linux I use frotz and long with a bash script. Each
user has a number, so I create a directory in /sbbs/data/user for the
user to store their saved games.

#!/bin/bash

stty kill undef
stty erase

if [ -z $1 ] ; then
echo "Must provide a user number"
exit 1
fi

if [ -z $2 ] ; then
echo "Must provide a filename"
exit 1
fi

BASENAME=$(echo $2|cut -f1 -d.)
GAMEPATH=/sbbs/xtrn/infocom
SAVEPATH=/sbbs/data/user/${1}/${BASENAME}
if [ ! -d ${SAVEPATH} ] ; then
mkdir -p ${SAVEPATH}
fi

/usr/local/bin/frotz -R ${SAVEPATH} ${GAMEPATH}/${2}

Then I setup each game accordingly. They're all stored in
/sbbs/xtrn/infocom

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]
1: Name Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2: Internal Code ICHHGG
3: Start-up Directory ../xtrn/infocom
4: Command Line rungame %4 hitchhiker.z3
5: Clean-up Command Line
6: Execution Cost None
7: Access Requirements
8: Execution Requirements
9: Multiple Concurrent Users Yes
10: I/O Method Standard
11: Native Executable/Script No
12: Use Shell or New Context No
13: Modify User Data No
14: Execute on Event No
15: Pause After Execution No
16: Disable Local Display No
17: BBS Drop File Type None
18: Place Drop File In Node Directory
19: Time Options...

%4 is the user's 4 digit, zero filled user name.

These setting seem to work fine for dosemu2 and using SyncTerm to
access the BBS. I can't say I've really tried other terminals.
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To: Nelgin
Re: Re: Infocom doors..
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Aug 09 2023 06:04 pm

> %4 is the user's 4 digit, zero filled user name.

user number. :-)
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To: Nelgin
Re: Re: Infocom doors..
By: Nelgin to All on Wed Aug 09 2023 06:04 pm

> With Synchronet on Linux I use frotz and long with a bash script.

There's also this:
https://github.com/fstltna/FrotzDoor

But it's a parentless fork of Frotz, so hard to exactly what was changed and why.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Re: Infocom doors..
By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Wed Aug 09 2023 16:55:30

> > %4 is the user's 4 digit, zero filled user name.
>
> user number. :-)

We have a winner of Nigel's Deliberate Mistake of the Day Contest.
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To: Digital Man
Re: Re: Infocom doors..
By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Wed Aug 09 2023 16:57:59

> But it's a parentless fork of Frotz, so hard to exactly what was changed and
> why.

hard to what now?

;)
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To: Nelgin
Re: Re: Infocom doors..
By: Nelgin to Digital Man on Wed Aug 09 2023 11:34 pm

> Re: Re: Infocom doors..
> By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Wed Aug 09 2023 16:57:59
>
> > But it's a parentless fork of Frotz, so hard to exactly what was changed
> > and why.
>
> hard to what now?
>
> ;)

hard to exactly.
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To: Nelgin
Re: Re: Infocom doors..
By: Nelgin to Digital Man on Wed Aug 09 2023 11:34 pm

> Re: Re: Infocom doors..
> By: Digital Man to Nelgin on Wed Aug 09 2023 16:57:59
>
> > But it's a parentless fork of Frotz, so hard to exactly what was changed
> > and why.
>
> hard to what now?

See. Hard to see. :-P
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