Playing around with adding some Infocom and BSD games as doors. Problem is
the Infocom interpreter, Frotz, plus most of the BSD games can be exited with Ctrl-C, which has the slightly annoying result of dropping the caller to a command line.

There is FrotzDoor, but I haven't been able to compile it on my Pi.

But in general, is there a way to trap Ctrl-C breaks to return to Mystic
rather than a command line?

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OK, a bit more specific:

Here's the bash script I'm running:

#!/bin/bash
trap '' 2
frotz -x /mystic/doors/infocom/$1.dat
exit

When I run it from a terminal:

./traptest zork1

Ctrl-Cs are trapped and I can't break out of the program.

But when I run the same script from Mystic, with this as my command:

/mystic/doors/infocom/traptest zork1

Ctrl-Cs don't get trapped, and I drop out of Mystic to a command line.

Is there something about the way doors work that I'm missing?

--nathanael

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On 20 Jan 2019, nathanael said the following...

Playing around with adding some Infocom and BSD games as doors. Problem
is the Infocom interpreter, Frotz, plus most of the BSD games can be exited with Ctrl-C, which has the slightly annoying result of dropping
the caller to a command line.

There is FrotzDoor, but I haven't been able to compile it on my Pi.

But in general, is there a way to trap Ctrl-C breaks to return to Mystic rather than a command line?

Not sure, but I host a TON of old Infocom and other text adventure games with DoorParty. Takes all of the work out of trying to get it done locally, you just connect to the server/door/game and it works. Each user gets their own saves
as well. It also traps CTRL-C through the use of DOORWAY.

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Not sure, but I host a TON of old Infocom and other text adventure games

Yeah, I saw that. I've got my Doorparty creds, but haven't yet set it up (I'll probably shoot you an email later).

Infocom was just the immediate catalyst. If I could get the Ctrl-C issue resolved more generally, I could put pretty much any console-mode Linux stuff (e.g., BSD Games) up as a door.

It also traps CTRL-C through the use
of DOORWAY.

I'm running on a Pi, so I can't run DOORWAY or DOSBox. I'm just using
Mystic's built-in DD or D3.

--nathanael
*HUMONGOUS* BBS - jenandcal.familyds.org:2323

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Ah, wait. Just caught your tagline

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You're running DOORWAY on a Pi? Tell me more :-)

--nathanael
*HUMONGOUS* BBS - jenandcal.familyds.org:2323

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On 21 Jan 2019, nathanael said the following...

Ah, wait. Just caught your tagline

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You're running DOORWAY on a Pi? Tell me more :-)

Nono, DoorParty is running DOORWAY on a Windows 7 VM on my Plex server for
the old DOS games. I wouldn't subject myself to the torture of trying to get
it all working from a Pi. =)

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On 21 Jan 2019, nathanael said the following...

I'm running on a Pi, so I can't run DOORWAY or DOSBox. I'm just using Mystic's built-in DD or D3.

--nathanael
*HUMONGOUS* BBS - jenandcal.familyds.org:2323

You can do DOSBox on the Pi, I do it all the time. Doom works OK that way,
but a little better when using a normal prdoom or such. DOSBox is hard to
setup (for BBS use), but does work on Pi. Just so you know.

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You can do DOSBox on the Pi

Yes, but...

DOSBox is
hard to setup (for BBS use)

From what I've heard, "hard" is an understatement. I took a brief stab at it myself, but then discovered BBSLink, etc., so thought, "Why bother?" And
since most of the rest of the stuff I wanted -- Infocom and Scott Adams
games, for example -- can run natively in Linux, getting DOSBox working
dropped to the bottom of my todo list.

Not that I wouldn't mind doing it just as a challenge, though, so go ahead -- spill the beans :-)

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