For my kids and their friends I used to set up several (up to like 5)
bare motherboards first with lantastic 2MB cards and then NE2000 10mB
compatible cards and play Doom over IPX back in the 90's.
On 12/13/2021 2:09 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 12/12/21 10:28 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
I haven't used ARCnet since we used to use it for 4-player Doom
(especially since not everyone in the gaming group had Ethernet at
home yet and it was easy to make a passive 4-port ARCnet hub.
I find this statement interesting for a couple of different reasons:
1) Paying Doom over ARCnet. -- I don't think I realized that ARCnet
was standardized enough that normal networking applications would work
over it. -- Naivety on my part.
2) "it was easy to make a passive 4-port ARCnet hub" ... I don't know
how to respond to that with anything but curiosity and /many/ open
ended questions.
