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  • Yankee Trader Com Port Issue

    From Geoffrey Sammons@1:103/705 to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wednesday, April 04, 2018 06:33:59
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    Synchronet running Yankee Trader


    The game plays perfectly in local. The issue is the game does not have fossil support. No matter what I try, YT keeps crashing at title screen with comport error.

    This is my 1st non-fossil game I am setting up. Only reason I want to set this
    game up, it was my personal favorite. Not much info to give. My setting in Synchronet are the standards using BAT file. I did a 1 node setup to ensure everything was simple.

    Thanks,
    teckkev

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Geoffrey Sammons on Wednesday, April 04, 2018 12:16:16
    Re: Yankee Trader Com Port Issue
    By: Geoffrey Sammons to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Apr 04 2018 06:33 am

    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Synchronet running Yankee Trader


    The game plays perfectly in local. The issue is the game does not have fossil support. No matter what I try, YT keeps crashing at title screen with comport error.

    This is my 1st non-fossil game I am setting up. Only reason I want to set this game up, it was my personal favorite. Not much info to give. My setting in Synchronet are the standards using BAT file. I did a 1 node setup to ensure everything was simple.

    Synchronet virtual UART/FOSSIL driver (sbbsexec.dll/dosxtrn.exe) for Windows NT-based OSes emulates a COM port (by default, COM1). See http://wiki.synchro.net/config:sbbsexec.ini for details.

    digital man

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  • From Dumas Walker@1:103/705 to GEOFFREY SAMMONS on Wednesday, April 04, 2018 18:23:00
    Synchronet running Yankee Trader

    Where did you find it?

    I have scoured the internet for a copy of that one and could not find it.
    Also looking for an older, working DOS version of Tradewars. I did find one
    of those, until I realized that it did not come with a daily maintenance program, like EXTERN. So, once you've used up your turns for the day, you cannot play Tradewars again... ever! :o

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