When I ran my BBS on Windows, one door game I was Tournament Trivia. I've since moved my BBS to Linux, and I haven't seen a Linux version of Tournament Trivia. I have some other trivia games installed now, but I'd be curious if there is a Linux port of Tournament Trivia?

The author of Tournament Trivia has released the source code (as well as a key generator with source) here:
https://github.com/evanelias/tournament-trivia

It uses OpenDoors (a Windows BBS door game toolkit) as well as Windows.h (a C/C++ header file with some Windows definitions), so it looks like it might not be trivial to port to Linux. I could have a look into it, but I'm curious if anyone has already tried porting this door game to Linux?

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On 02 May 2025 at 06:16p, Nightfox pondered and said...

When I ran my BBS on Windows, one door game I was Tournament Trivia.
I've since moved my BBS to Linux, and I haven't seen a Linux version of Tournament Trivia. I have some other trivia games installed now, but I'd be curious if there is a Linux port of Tournament Trivia?

The author of Tournament Trivia has released the source code (as well as
a key generator with source) here: https://github.com/evanelias/tournament-trivia

It uses OpenDoors (a Windows BBS door game toolkit) as well as Windows.h (a C/C++ header file with some Windows definitions), so it looks like it might not be trivial to port to Linux. I could have a look into it, but I'm curious if anyone has already tried porting this door game to Linux?

If the source is available, the very least that can be accomplished is a reverse-engineered version.

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Re: Re: Tournament Trivia BBS door - Linux port?
By: Gryphon to Nightfox on Tue May 06 2025 07:58 am

The author of Tournament Trivia has released the source code (as well as
a key generator with source) here:
https://github.com/evanelias/tournament-trivia

It uses OpenDoors (a Windows BBS door game toolkit) as well as Windows.h
(a C/C++ header file with some Windows definitions), so it looks like it
might not be trivial to port to Linux. I could have a look into it, but
I'm curious if anyone has already tried porting this door game to Linux?

If the source is available, the very least that can be accomplished is a reverse-engineered version.

Yeah, I've started having a look at it. There's a version of OpenDoors included with Synchronet that can be built for Linux (as well as Windows), so that's a plus. But the Tournament Trivia source code also uses Windows mail slots for inter-process communication; for Linux, it would have to use something else, perhaps named pipes or sockets or something. I'm still curious to try to get it to build & run in Linux, though I suppose it isn't a big priority for me since I have other trivia doors on my BBS now.

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When I ran my BBS on Windows, one door game I was Tournament Trivia.
I've since moved my BBS to Linux, and I haven't seen a Linux version of

A Linux BBS will run non-Linux games and utilities. You don't need
something made specifially for Linux.

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Re: Re: Tournament Trivia BBS door - Linux port?
By: Alonzo to Nightfox on Tue May 06 2025 11:30 am

When I ran my BBS on Windows, one door game I was Tournament Trivia.
I've since moved my BBS to Linux, and I haven't seen a Linux version of

A Linux BBS will run non-Linux games and utilities. You don't need something made specifially for Linux.

Yeah, I know it potentially could. I have DOSEMU2 to run DOS doors; however, Tournament Trivia is a Win32 door, and I'm not sure there's a way to get that running in Linux with a BBS so that a user can interact with it. I know it could probably run in Wine, but it would have to be able to interact with the telnet session the user is connected to.. I'm running Synchronet - Do you know if there's a way to run Win32 doors in Wine with Synchronet on Linux?

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