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    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Nick Andre on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 21:34:39
    Hello Nick,

    28 Mar 26 20:41, you wrote to me:

    I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old
    setups.

    How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

    -- Sean

    ... Procedures designed to implement the purpose won't quite work.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240209
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  • From Alexander Grotewohl@1:120/616 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 22:28:02
    On 31 Mar 2026, Sean Dennis said the following...

    Hello Nick,

    28 Mar 26 20:41, you wrote to me:

    I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old setups.

    How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

    86-box is a full pc emulator.

    for example, i can select the very first motherboard i purchased in there (ASUS P5A) fit it with the same cpu (AMD K6-2 400MHz) throw in a Sound Blaster 16 and a Matrox video card and install OS/2 on it.

    it's a lot like a pc hardware toybox. for that it's awesome!

    it strives to be fairly realistic though.. including options to make the simulated hard drive SLOWER.. ;)

    probably not for BBS stuff unless you want to really feel like you're running it on old hardware, speed and all.

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Sean Dennis on Tuesday, March 31, 2026 22:41:40
    On 31 Mar 26 21:34:39, Sean Dennis said the following to Nick Andre:

    How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

    Its a full-on PC emulator, not some silly DOS environment.

    But mannnnnn... the types of setups to be emulated is very impressive.

    Even emulates those quirky no-name Pentium boards I had fond memories of trying to get OS/2 to play nice on. Ohh how many weekends wasted on that...

    Nick

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  • From Jas Hud@1:3634/27 to Sean Dennis on Wednesday, April 01, 2026 03:36:05
    To: Sean Dennis
    Re: Idea for a youtube video series
    By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Tue Mar 31 2026 09:34 pm

    From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

    Hello Nick,

    28 Mar 26 20:41, you wrote to me:

    I'm a fan of 86-Box; seems to be fairly decent for emulating old
    setups.

    How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

    -- Sean

    ... Procedures designed to implement the purpose won't quite work.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240209
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Johnson City, TN (1:18/200)
    --- Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 NewsLink 1.113

    You just have to make sure that 2 users can't go in the door at the same time. My bbs software has that ability.

    otherwise it works fine. I've been using it to run programs and shit via bbs dosbox and doorway for 20 or more years. They have been more stable than some regular doorgames. I do not recommend it unless you have no other options.


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  • From Richard Falken@1:135/115 to Sean Dennis on Sunday, April 05, 2026 07:01:17
    Re: Idea for a youtube video series
    By: Sean Dennis to Nick Andre on Tue Mar 31 2026 09:34 pm


    How does it handle file locking? No file locking support is why DOSbox and DOSbox-X don't work well for running as an emulator for DOS doors.

    86box is a system emulator, meaning it emulates the hardware and you can run whatever software you can manage to run on such emulated hardware.

    You can expect the software you run within 86box to run pretty much as software running on a real legacy machine. In fact 86box is often used as a last ditch effort when solutions such as dosbox are not curring it.

    It is computationally intensive so if you want to emulate anything modernish (say, a Pentium II) it might get taxing.


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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Richard Falken on Sunday, April 05, 2026 17:03:43
    Richard Falken wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    It is computationally intensive so if you want to emulate anything modernish (say, a Pentium II) it might get taxing.

    My BBS runs on a HPE ProLiant ML110 G6 server which has a a quad-core Xeon X3430 CPU (2.40ghz) so it should be able to handle the load. However, I use DOSemu for a DOS emulator which works great. If I ever get around to setting up a FreeBSD machine, I'd definitely experiment.

    -- Sean

    ... I pulled a muscle digging for gold. Just a miner injury.

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