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Subject: Setting up an old pc for synchronet Date: Tue Jan 07 2025 05:23 pm
From: Digital Man To: Rixter

  Re: Setting up an old pc for synchronet
  By: Rixter to All on Tue Jan 07 2025 12:35 pm

DOVE-Net "General" is probably not the best place to ask for tech help. We have 
better conferences for that.

 > I have an old window 10;unit I want to set up for sbbs. I can copy sbbs over
 > to it and it run's but when I try to install ntvdmx64 I cannot get windows
 > defender to get out of the way no matter what I try.

I've successfully installed NTVDMx64 on multiple Win10 systems. Can you elaborat
e?

 > I also noticed in dos
 > when I try run an executable it cannot find it even if I am in the same
 > directory it is located in.

If it's a 64-bit edition of Windows and you do *not* have NVTMDx64 installed, yo
u can't run DOS programs. Normally, it'll still find and try to execute the .exe
 file, but just report an error, e.g. "Unsupported 16-bit Application".


What am I missing out on? I hope someone can
 > tell me the obvious thing I am overthinking. Thank you.
 >
 > telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
 > http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
 > Madison,NC
 >
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                                            digital man (rob)

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