Reply 15600 of 27455, by Caluser2000
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jheronimus wrote on 2020-05-28, 16:21:In order to host IPX game I'll need some kind of an IPX simulator like Kali and Kahn. The current plan is for the latter because […]
In order to host IPX game I'll need some kind of an IPX simulator like Kali and Kahn. The current plan is for the latter because there are readily available freeware versions of both client and server. I've decided to use Red Hat Linux 9 for several reasons:
- Kahn is not available for WinNT and I suppose Win9x is a weird choice for a server;
- Red Hat Linux 9 was my first Linux distro ever (well, actually ASP Linux 9, but that was just a localized and reskinned version of RH9 for Russia);
- RH definitely was the most popular distro then, and every developer who ported their software or game to Linux provided an RPM package. It was also very user-friendly for its time;
- having a "final" version kind of takes away the issue of picking a specific version.server accessible to others. Oh, and find people who are as interested in playing using original hardware as I am 😀
RH 9 was nice alright. Duvuan Linux, a modern init based distro based on Debian should install and run just fine as well. I run Duvuan Jessie on my K6-2 266 test rig with no problems. It also ran fine on the previous P166mmx mobo with 256megs of ram fine as well. Use NetSurf as the web browser.
There's a glitch in the matrix.
A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉