Hi All,

I just finished moving a working installation of WC! 4.2SL from WinXP (where it

was running perfectly using MS Virtual PC), over to Win 7 Pro using Oracle's Virtual Box VM software (MS VPC is not fully supported under Win 7).

NOW, all WC! does on start-up is display "Carrier Detected, Dropping DTR", the modem lights (USR Courier VE) flash around some then WC! gives up and exits. :(


Anyone have any idea what is going on? I've exhausted my efforts to re-configure things to WC!'s liking! Also, at NO time does the CD light come on

(worked fine the other day) and the CD Override DIP switch is Off as expected. Init option &C1 has no affect either. The COM1 port and modem settings are all in sync, 115200 Baud, 8,N,1 with Hardware handshaking (CTS/RTS). Google has turned up nada on the situation.


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I just finished moving a working installation of WC! 4.2SL from WinXP (where

it

was running perfectly using MS Virtual PC), over to Win 7 Pro using Oracle's BR>Virtual Box VM software (MS VPC is not fully supported under Win 7).

NOW, all WC! does on start-up is display "Carrier Detected, Dropping DTR", the
modem lights (USR Courier VE) flash around some then WC! gives up and exits.

:(

Anyone have any idea what is going on? I've exhausted my efforts to BR>re-configure things to WC!'s liking! Also, at NO time does the CD light come

on

(worked fine the other day) and the CD Override DIP switch is Off as expected.
Init option &C1 has no affect either. The COM1 port and modem settings are all
in sync, 115200 Baud, 8,N,1 with Hardware handshaking (CTS/RTS). Google has BR>turned up nada on the situation.

Did you install the tools as well as the extension pack?
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in sync, 115200 Baud, 8,N,1 with Hardware handshaking (CTS/RTS).
Google has turned up nada on the situation.

Did you install the tools as well as the extension pack?

VBox? I installed the package plus the Guest additions. What else is there?


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Did you install the tools as well as the extension pack?

Ok, after checking Oracle's site, what Tools? I installed the package which also installed the extension pack automatically (I downloaded it again and re-installed just to make sure though it said it was already installed) and the

SDK is not an install so I don't need that I presume. Tell me I missed something! {chuckle}


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VBox? I installed the package plus the Guest additions. What else is t

Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with this? I had it working with one of my two Zoom 57.6k USB modems and it worked fine under VirtualBox.

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Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with this? I had
it working with one of my two Zoom 57.6k USB modems and it worked fine under VirtualBox.

Yeah, USB seems fine. When I can afford one I will do just that {chuckle} thanks!


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Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with this? I had

Thanks again, but I went scrounging thru my junk boxes and found a Usb 2.0 Serial port interface with drivers (gently used) so will give that a try 1st. Will keep ya posted! :)


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On 08/21/18, Robert Wolfe said the following...

Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with this? I had it working with one of my two Zoom 57.6k USB modems and it worked fine under

USB Modems, are tough, I tried running one with a VM and the host couldn't
pass the com port to the VM. Even though it was a USB modem, the VM never saw it.. In fact it is now sitting in my closet gathering dust because I have no use for it.. LOL At least that was my experience with it...

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On 08/21/18, Ben Ritchey said the following...

Yeah, USB seems fine. When I can afford one I will do just that
{chuckle} thanks!

I got one on ebay for $20, USR USB Fax Modem... They are a dime a dozen on there...

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Yeah, USB seems fine. When I can afford one I will do just that
{chuckle} thanks!

I got one on ebay for $20, USR USB Fax Modem... They are a dime a
dozen on there...

Yeah, Amazon has the USR USB new for $25 :)


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Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with this? I had it working with one of my two Zoom 57.6k USB modems and it worked fine under VirtualBox.

Yeah, USB seems fine. When I can afford one I will do just that {chuckle} thanks!

Well, have three actually - a small dell laptop USB modem and the two
bigger ones. Name your price ;)
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Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with this? I had

Thanks again, but I went scrounging thru my junk boxes and found a Usb 2.0 Serial port interface with drivers (gently used) so will give that a try

1st.

Will keep ya posted! :)

oh, ok, cool. Please do.
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USB Modems, are tough, I tried running one with a VM and the host couldn't pass the com port to the VM. Even though it was a USB modem, the VM never

saw

it.. In fact it is now sitting in my closet gathering dust because I have no use for it.. LOL At least that was my experience with it...

With VirtualBox, not so much. VMWare workstation, yeah.
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Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with

this? I had -> RW> it working with one of my two Zoom 57.6k USB
modems and it worked fine -> RW> under VirtualBox.

Yeah, USB seems fine. When I can afford one I will do just that

{chuckle} -> thanks!
Well, have three actually - a small dell laptop USB modem and the two bigger ones. Name your price ;)

If one is a USR USB {gently used} we can talk?


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Oh, ok, that's about it. Have you tried a USB modem with

this? I had

Thanks again, but I went scrounging thru my junk boxes and found a

Usb 2.0 -> Serial port interface with drivers (gently used) so will
give that a try 1st. -> Will keep ya posted! :)
oh, ok, cool. Please do.

Failure {weeping} lol Oracle's VBox does NOT like serial ports, they all screw up the same way, too!


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Re: Re: WC! DOS
By: Ben Ritchey to Robert Wolfe on Wed Aug 22 2018 02:19 pm

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Failure {weeping} lol Oracle's VBox does NOT like serial ports, they all screw up the same way, too!

That's what I thought, I had issues with a little ditty called sexpots to allow dial up calls on pretty much any BBS. I couldn't get VBox to set up the right ports, then when I got an external modem, I tried to pass through COM 1 and it still didn't work, since the program is so small I just installed it on the host and am using it that way.. This is going to sound crazy, but you might want to try sex pots and install it on the host then let it contact your BBS via Telnet.. It works for me, my BBS is on a different computer in a VM and it gets through every time..
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* On Saturday 25 Aug 2018 237 at 07:46 PM,
* Al DeRosa said to Ben Ritchey,
* about Re: WC! DOS ...
*

No telnet for WC! just dial-up ...


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