mbbrutman wrote on 2026-01-13, 01:20:

The read-ahead function will eventually get out; it just makes more sense now to do the same for writes too before I release it. Depending on the machine and the distance to the server it increased the speed by 5x, which is something I need/want for usage with public servers.

There is also plenty of other work to be done too, but I'm having problems finding the time to get to all of it. But rest assured, it's not dead.

That's good to hear! I know how hard it can be to find time for side projects .

I really appreciate the work you've put in to create the mTCP package, it's something I use on all my retro computers.

(Delayed response - recovering from the flu)

Thank you ... and if it isn't obvious, I appreciate what you and the whole team here do at Vogons ...

Thanks for your Netdrive!

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro M10, but last year, I physically broke the HDD IDE connector. Thanks to Netdrive, it gave a second life to this computer. Yesterday, I installed Windows 98 completely diskless on it. I've made a small pxelinux boot drive of 7mb). I started the first part of the Windows install on virtual box with 2 hdd images, then I transferred the small image to pxeboot (boot drive), and the larger one (Windows drive) is used by netdrive. To my surprise, Windows 98 is fully working, stable, and much faster than anticipated. I tested Diablo. and It is very playable, with just a few audio glitches. I also tested Warcraft II, it seems to work without any issues. As for cd-rom drive, I used the Dos driver as a workaround. The internal Ethernet car is used for pxe boot and Netdrive. I use a pcmcia network card for Win98 network. I'm very pleased overall.

The only thing is that I need to kill the session on the server side between reboots.