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FRANTIC! v1.00
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You are under attack and time is running
out! Waves of relentless enemies are
closing in from every direction.

Move fast, shoot faster, and survive as
long as you can as the chaos gets more
frantic with every passing second!

How long can you last before the
madness overwhelms you?

Go for the high score and prove you are
the fastest gun on the board!

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What OS and/or BBS package is it designed for?

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What OS and/or BBS package is it designed for?

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Any BBS that can run a DOOR.SYS door for DOS.

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What OS and/or BBS package is it designed for?

It's a 16bit DOS Door Game that will run on any BBS that can use DOOR.SYS, DORINFOx.DEF, etc.

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What OS and/or BBS package is it designed for?

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Any BBS that can run a DOOR.SYS door for DOS.

Thanks!

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Hello Exodus,

03 Jun 26 18:58, you wrote to All:

Grab it from here or www.rgbbs.info/nw.html

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FRANTIC! v1.00
(c) 2026 - NewWave Software

You are under attack and time is running
out! Waves of relentless enemies are
closing in from every direction.

Move fast, shoot faster, and survive as
long as you can as the chaos gets more
frantic with every passing second!

i 've installed and tried it under my my pentium 1- 180mhz (running os/2) and shooting the bullet is like 1fps. is this a normal behaviour?

ByEbYe
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i 've installed and tried it under my my pentium 1- 180mhz (running os/2) a shooting the bullet is like 1fps. is this a normal behaviour?

Did you adjust the DELAY.TXT to compensate for the slower machine? Range for that file is in the .DOC file.

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What OS and/or BBS package is it designed for?

It's a 16bit DOS Door Game that will run on any BBS that can use
DOOR.SYS, DORINFOx.DEF, etc.

So it has to run under a DOS emulator? I have yet to attempt setting up any doors running under DOSemu. Prefer to either use DoorParty or BBSlink if I can't find one that runs natively on Linux. Dealing with emulators just opens things up for to many variables and things that can break when there is an update.
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So it has to run under a DOS emulator? I have yet to attempt setting up an doors running under DOSemu. Prefer to either use DoorParty or BBSlink if I can't find one that runs natively on Linux. Dealing with emulators just op things up for to many variables and things that can break when there is an update.

If you use those type of servers, ask the maintainer of the door server to add the game.

A BBS was never intended to run on Linux, hense why almost all doors are written for DOS, and still are (Some Win32, OS/2).

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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Geri Atricks to Exodus on Sat Jun 06 2026 10:16 am

So it has to run under a DOS emulator? I have yet to attempt setting up any doors running under DOSemu. Prefer to either use DoorParty or BBSlink if I can't find one that runs natively on Linux. Dealing with emulators just opens things up for to many variables and things that can break when there is an update.

I moved my BBS from Windows to Linux about 4 years ago, and I've been using dosemu2 (and dosemu before that). There were just a couple times when I updated dosemu2 and noticed different behavior, but that's pretty rare. 99% of the time, it just works (or as they say, 99% of the time, it works every time).

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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Exodus to Geri Atricks on Sat Jun 06 2026 11:29 am

A BBS was never intended to run on Linux, hense why almost all doors are written for DOS, and still are (Some Win32, OS/2).

Synchronet and Mystic both have Linux versions, which very much are intended to run on Linux. The issue is a lot of door software, as you say, is written for DOS, but that's because they were made many years ago and the authors have since moved on to other things. I have seen some BBS doors for Win32 (as you say) and Linux, but not nearly as many. And specifically for Synchronet, there are some doors that are written in JavaScript using Synchronet's JavaScript object model, which feel like native doors when they're running.

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Exodus wrote to Geri Atricks <=-

So it has to run under a DOS emulator? I have yet to attempt setting up an doors running under DOSemu. Prefer to either use DoorParty or BBSlink if I can't find one that runs natively on Linux. Dealing with emulators just op things up for to many variables and things that can break when there is an update.

If you use those type of servers, ask the maintainer of the door server
to add the game.

A BBS was never intended to run on Linux, hense why almost all doors
are written for DOS, and still are (Some Win32, OS/2).

Not really true. A DOS BBS written in the 80's/90's didn't know
anything about Linux, but modern BBS software is multi-platform and runs natively on Linux. Running old DOS doors on Linux does require an
emulator for DOS, but that's not the same thing.

For the OP, I have *never* had anything break regarding doors/emulators
after (many) updates to everything. <SHRUG>



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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Gamgee to Exodus on Sat Jun 06 2026 12:38 pm

For the OP, I have *never* had anything break regarding doors/emulators after (many) updates to everything. <SHRUG>

I've had a couple instances where DOS doors failed to run after updating dosemu2, and I found there was a small change in its behavior that I had to fix. Not really a big deal, and it's very rare when that happens.

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Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

For the OP, I have *never* had anything break regarding doors/emulators after (many) updates to everything. <SHRUG>

I've had a couple instances where DOS doors failed to run after
updating dosemu2, and I found there was a small change in its behavior that I had to fix. Not really a big deal, and it's very rare when that happens.

Another reason to stick with original dosemu ... it doesn't get updated.
;-)



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On 06 Jun 26 10:16:19, Geri Atricks said the following to Exodus:

So it has to run under a DOS emulator? I have yet to attempt setting up any doors running under DOSemu. Prefer to either use DoorParty or BBSlink if I can't find one that runs natively on Linux. Dealing with emulators just ope things up for to many variables and things that can break when there is an update.

Oh dear, "this" topic again...

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For the OP, I have *never* had anything break regarding doors/emulators
after (many) updates to everything. <SHRUG>

Back when linux did away with DPMI support, TW2002 and
other software requiring it did stop working under dosemu.

It does run again now that DOSBOX-X is a thing.


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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Jun 06 2026 06:55 pm

I've had a couple instances where DOS doors failed to run after updating
dosemu2, and I found there was a small change in its behavior that I had
to fix. Not really a big deal, and it's very rare when that happens.

Another reason to stick with original dosemu ... it doesn't get updated. ;-)

From what I could tell though, TradeWars 2002 doesn't work with the original dosemu.. That's the reason I switched to dosemu2. Overall I haven't had much problem with dosemu2, so I'll stick with that. TradeWars 2002 seems to be a fairly popular door game.

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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Gamgee to Nightfox on Sat Jun 06 2026 06:55 pm

I've had a couple instances where DOS doors failed to run after updating
dosemu2, and I found there was a small change in its behavior that I had
to fix. Not really a big deal, and it's very rare when that

happens.

Another reason to stick with original dosemu ... it doesn't get

updated.

;-)

From what I could tell though, TradeWars 2002 doesn't work with the original dosemu.. That's the reason I switched to dosemu2. Overall I haven't had much problem with dosemu2, so I'll stick with that. TradeWars 2002 seems to be a fairly popular door game.

twgs is much more powerful, and supports more types of games and aliens as
well as ships and universes...

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MIKE POWELL wrote to GAMGEE <=-

For the OP, I have *never* had anything break regarding doors/emulators after (many) updates to everything. <SHRUG>

Back when linux did away with DPMI support, TW2002 and
other software requiring it did stop working under dosemu.

Ahh yes, I have heard that some folks switched to dosemu2 in order to
get that (TW2002) running again. I don't have that door/game installed.

It does run again now that DOSBOX-X is a thing.

Hmmm... As I recall, doors don't work properly with original DOSBOX.
Can you run DOS doors under Linux using DOSBOX-X ?



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Hello Exodus,

05 Jun 26 17:07, you wrote to me:

i 've installed and tried it under my my pentium 1- 180mhz (running
os/2) a shooting the bullet is like 1fps. is this a normal
behaviour?

Did you adjust the DELAY.TXT to compensate for the slower machine?
Range for that file is in the .DOC file.

great, thanks! 2000 works great! :)

ByEbYe
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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Shurato to Nightfox on Sun Jun 07 2026 12:42 pm

From what I could tell though, TradeWars 2002 doesn't work with the
original dosemu.. That's the reason I switched to dosemu2. Overall I
haven't had much problem with dosemu2, so I'll stick with that.
TradeWars 2002 seems to be a fairly popular door game.

twgs is much more powerful, and supports more types of games and aliens as well as ships and universes...

I had that set up on my BBS for a little while, when I was using dosemu (where TW2002 wasn't working). Once I got dosemu2 set up and TW2002 working again, there were one or two users on my BBS who emailed me & said they were glad I was able to get TW2002 working again.

I might set up TWGS again at some point though. It looks like it's an exe though (maybe Win32?); currently I'm running my BBS in Linux. I'd have to look into ways to get that running in Linux (maybe with Wine?)

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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Gamgee to MIKE POWELL on Sun Jun 07 2026 01:58 pm

It does run again now that DOSBOX-X is a thing.

Hmmm... As I recall, doors don't work properly with original DOSBOX. Can you run DOS doors under Linux using DOSBOX-X ?

Even if you can, at least for Synchronet sysops, I'd wonder if there's a way to get DOSBOX-X working with Synchronet.

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i 've installed and tried it under my my pentium 1- 180mhz (running
os/2) a shooting the bullet is like 1fps. is this a normal
behaviour?

Did you adjust the DELAY.TXT to compensate for the slower machine?
Range for that file is in the .DOC file.

great, thanks! 2000 works great! :)

Yeah, all of my doors with stickmen will have this option. Each one can be fine tuned. What works great in one, may not work great in another. :)


Glad you got it working!

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Re: Re: FRANTIC! By: Shurato to Nightfox on Sun Jun 07 2026 12:42
pm

From what I could tell though, TradeWars 2002 doesn't work with the
original dosemu.. That's the reason I switched to dosemu2. Overall

I

twgs is much more powerful, and supports more types of games and

aliens as

well as ships and universes...

I might set up TWGS again at some point though. It looks like it's an exe though (maybe Win32?); currently I'm running my BBS in Linux. I'd have to look into ways to get that running in Linux (maybe with Wine?)

Yes, it's win32. I think you can run it with Wine, others doing that would have to chime in, I'm not a Linux user for my bbs. You could always connect
to an external server.

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Re: Re: FRANTIC!
By: Gamgee to MIKE POWELL on Sun Jun 07 2026 01:58 pm

It does run again now that DOSBOX-X is a thing.

Hmmm... As I recall, doors don't work properly with original DOSBOX. Can you run DOS doors under Linux using DOSBOX-X ?

Even if you can, at least for Synchronet sysops, I'd wonder if there's
a way to get DOSBOX-X working with Synchronet.

Let us know what you find out! ;-)



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From what I could tell though, TradeWars 2002 doesn't work with the original dosemu.. That's the reason I switched to dosemu2. Overall I haven't had much problem with dosemu2, so I'll stick with that. TradeWars 2002 seems to be a fairly popular door game.

It did and does work under dosemu *if* you are running it on a system/vm that you have not upgraded beyond where DPMI support was removed.

Once DPMI support was dropped, if you upgraded to the new linux kernel then, yes, it no longer works with dosemu. I wonder how they accounted for that in dosemu2?


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Regarding TW2002:

It does run again now that DOSBOX-X is a thing.

Hmmm... As I recall, doors don't work properly with original DOSBOX.
Can you run DOS doors under Linux using DOSBOX-X ?

I am able to run DOS doors, including TW2002, under DOSBOX-X. Caveat -- the system I am running all of my DOS doors under is a DOS BBS that is also running under DOSBOX-X. I have no idea if you can use DOSBOX-X to run doors in association with a linux BBS such as Synchronet. I have never tried it here.


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