How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
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How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
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Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#2> I didn't work on the Chunnel. That was mainly a British guy named Henry
The British guy named Henry might have named it after another feat of engineering completed around the same time.
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#3I was half expecting something about how to get tcp into windows, but this is win95 where they shipped it inside the os and put some company out of business that used to sell that.
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#4I was half expecting something about how to get tcp into windows, but this is win95 where they shipped it inside the os and put some company out of business that used to sell that.
I used to use Trumpet Winsock with Windows 3.1
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#5I learned to solder as a pre-teen so I could make a nullmodem :) Then I learned that resistors were a thing when I made a parallel port sound card (this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing). Fun times!
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#6I was half expecting something about how to get tcp into windows, but this is win95 where they shipped it inside the os and put some company out of business that used to sell that.
Didn't Win95 get tcp from FreeBSD?
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#7” It is impressive to see Quake run at full speed knowing that Windows 95 runs DOS executable in a virtual machine. My guess is that, in full screen, memory writes and reads to the VGA are given direct access to the hardware to preserve performances”
Virtual x86 mode had little to do with what we nowadays think of when someone says ”virtual machine”
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#8I learned to solder as a pre-teen so I could make a nullmodem :) Then I learned that resistors were a thing when I made a parallel port sound card (this thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covox_Speech_Thing ). Fun times!
I wasn't allowed a soldering iron as a kid, so I ended up just chopping and splicing a regular serial cable and turned it into a null modem, all so that I could play OMF2097 with my friends without having to share the same keyboard (we would always fight over right side, which defaulted to using the arrow keys for movement - and so the person who got the right side generally had the advantage, as back then arrow keys were the default movement keys, unlike these days where WASD is default.)
Re: How Quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack
#9> I didn't work on the Chunnel. That was mainly a British guy named Henry The British guy named Henry might have named it after another feat of engineering completed around the same time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_Tunnel
Or from the Seinfeld episode "The Pool Guy" (Aired November 1995) which had a fictional movie called "Chunnel" -- probably based on the very same channel tunnel.