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Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-18, 20:44

Was lanparty behind paywall or it was free? Would you need also some Netware server is network or its working at peer to peer basis? Lol, sorry... a "LAN party" was an ad-hoc (occassionally professionally organized) event, not a piece of software or pay-for thing. People in the mid to late '90s and …

Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-18, 17:04

I never played through network card at Dos, had these games whole IPX stack everytime inbuild or you have to have already something (network driver, Netware) installed? Well, you would load your specific NIC's ODI driver, and the IPX stack driver (2-3 TSRs total), which is the basis of the Novell …

Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-17, 20:31

I don't know. Yes it still supports IPX and there is client software for W9x, WNT4, W2K, DOS (incl W3.x), OS2, MacOS and Linux/Unix. Although i could not find what MacOS version it supports. According to the age, i would say MacOS 8 and 9, maybe also OSX 10.0 - 10.4. Yeah, I actually recently …

Re: NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-15, 17:04

Yes, the licensing is a problem. Yes, I'm not quite sure what to do about that other than purchase some on eBay and hope they work... but I understand from reading that 4.x comes with a 2-user license without adding on any other add-on licensing... which I think should be more than enough for what …

NetWare - Ultimate Retro File Sharing?

Posted on 2018-08-15, 03:13

Lots of people on here seem to discuss the best way to share or distribute files via network between one's various retro machines. People debate SMB (e.g. Samba on Linux) or FTP server... myself, to date, have used an HTTP server on my LAN and that seems to work pretty universally for downloading/ …

Re: Apple Mac G4 Build

Posted on 2018-06-28, 13:26

So I have one now ordered from Amazon that specifically mentions MacOS 8.6+ compatible. So, it arrived last night, and despite the description in the store page saying "MacOS 8.6+", the package says "MacOS 9". But whatever, I'm running 9.2, so that's still fine. Connect it up, and the Mac won't …

Re: Screen Blanking Issue

Posted on 2018-06-27, 01:52

Well, I don't know if I fixed the issue or just put a bandaid on it (likely the latter), but on a hunch I found an old VGA amplifier... the kind one would use with a 50 foot VGA run to an overhead projector, before VGA-over-Cat5 or digital formats waa common. This particular one advertises that it …

Screen Blanking Issue

Posted on 2018-06-25, 18:03

I have two video cards which display similar/same symptoms, but I am not sure the problems are related at the root as the cards are quite different and in different systems - one an AGP ATI Rage Pro in a Mac G4, and the other a PCI nVidia geForce FX5200 in a Via EPIA-M motherboard. For both it seems …

Re: Mac-only or Mac-best Games

Posted on 2018-06-21, 20:19

So going through games that are developed on/for Mac, I'm realizing that a lot (almost all) games that I play in Windows 3.1 are actually ports of Mac games. I always questioned people who said "there are no good games for Windows 3.1" ... come to find out my beloved games representing my reason for …

Mac-only or Mac-best Games

Posted on 2018-06-19, 02:10

So now that I have a Mac G4 in my collection, I need some ideas for games to get for it other than the three that I have. So, I'm looking for suggestions of some good Mac games selection and, more specifically, games that are either exclusive to Mac or best experienced on Mac... and moreso looking …

Re: Apple Mac G4 Build

Posted on 2018-06-19, 01:43

So, slight huccup; I have a VGA-PS/2 KVM that I have my retro PCs hooked up to, so I figured, no problem, I have a couple USB to PS/2 adapters, so I'll use that (one of the reasons I wanted to start with a G3 or G4, USB keyboard/mouse compatibility). However, it appears that the cheap China USB to …

Re: Apple Mac G4 Build

Posted on 2018-06-16, 02:24

So... the cheap G5-alike ATX case has built-in standoffs for ATX motherboards as part of the stamped metal of the motherboard tray. I thought I was doing good covering them up with electrical tape to prevent shorts... I guess electrical tape wasn't good enough. The pins on the backside of the IDE/ …

Re: 1997 (ish) gaming build

Posted on 2018-06-15, 01:33

I have a very similar "1997" build... MMX 233 in a Socket 7 board, S3 Virge, 3Dfx Voodoo2, and AWE64. I find it to be a very capable Windows 95 machine, running everything from Doom and Quake barely breaking a sweat and even up to Halflife and Quake II with respectable framerate (with 3Dfx mini-GL …

Re: Apple Mac G4 Build

Posted on 2018-06-14, 23:53

Going with MacOS 9.2 as my intention is to play games roughly 1990-2000. We'll see how that works out. I may or may not install MacOS X as a dual boot. So I got everything in the case pretty well, the custom motherboard mounting holes worked out better than I was expecting... had to dremel a little …

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