Will be there Dedicated Server for MS-DOS?

[ConiKost]

Hi There!
Will be there a Dedicated Server for MS-DOS ?

[Dextro]

can you get tcp/ip connections in DOS???

[ConiKost]

As far I know, Yes!

[lucaspiller]

Could I ask why you would even want one for DOS?

If you have a recent build just run it with the -D option.

[orudge]

I've built OpenTTD with DJGPP (a 32-bit DOS compiler) before, it worked OK but not brilliantly. I did look into TCP/IP via WATTCP too, but didn't ultimately get that far. It's perhaps possible, but a bit too much effort to be worth it, to be honest.

[Hackykid]

Heh, a dedicated server for dos is probably near-impossible....

Dos doesnt do multitasking, so you would have to emulate this yourself by hooking into the timer interrupt, which will probably mean a rewrite for ottd, if its possible at all......

In any case, why would you need this?

[Celestar]

Perhaps it would be possible if the server did not fork into the background?

Celestar

[Hackykid]

yes, that may be possible.....

But, if you're only gonna run a ottd server on the machine, there is no reason to just use a simple linux install, which would be way easyer.

Maybe we should make a knoppix-like boot-cd image, with ottd installed :-p

hmm, but then there would need to be a way for users to add the .grf files to the images... hmmm

And again, ConiKost: is there a reason you want dedicated ottd server for dos?

[orudge]

Heh, a dedicated server for dos is probably near-impossible....

I see no reason why that should be the case. Why do you need multitasking? A dedicated server would actually be somewhat easier than a GUI-based system. I have a driver that does video, sound and music under DOS, but it's not the best implementation ever. Coupling OpenTTD with WATTCP and running it - as a dedicated server - as the primary process on the system should work fine, assuming you can get your network card/modem working well enough.

I'm not saying it'd be sensible, just possible.