The Major BBS Forums (Archive)

HA! Awesome, what an idiot I am, it works. Things have changed so much, it's hard to imagine I used to refuse to go to windows I was stuck in DOS, now I can't remember this archaic stuff to save my life. For some reason I didn't think that WG would manipulate the IP... i guess thats why you use a ...

Worked great questman! Thanks for the response. It has brought me to my next question, how do you set a static IP in VMWare using the virual bridge.

It's pulling DHCP addresses. I would change it in the on my OS but I am using DOS 6.22 and i have no lan manager or anything installed. I also would ...

Quest I can't figure out this Packet driver thing in WMWare it's the only thing holding me up. I see bits and peices of information on how to install it on the web but not a complete tutorial and SOOOO rusty when it comes to dos. Any help from anyone is appreciated.

Oh yea, Virtual PC sucked, VMWare was like plug and play. I installed VMWare, install Dos 6.22, came right up with no modification needing to me done. I didn't even have to use MEM386 and it reads all of the memory.

Has anyone gotten Major BBS 6.25 or Worldgroup 1/2 DOS working under Virtual PC 2004?

My DOS computer's power supply crapped out, so I put the drive through the imager and made a vhd image (virtual pc hard drive image) - it boots, but I get an exception when I try to boot the BBS up... seems like ...

What happened to this thing, I wanted to try it the link is broke.

So I missed the place where it all started for me and outlined the rest of my career.

I found an my old copy of WG 1.01 (can't believe I still have it).

I changed my config.nt to FILES=254.

So I can get the menu up now but I am running into a few issues.

1. When i go into the cnf editor as I am ...