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I’ve made an incredible discovery. I installed Monopoly CD-ROM (1995) on my X… | |
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I installed Wireshark 1.10.14, the last version to support XP SP2. One capture … | |
Post #AqFaIJwSk4fvnGNAKO by [email protected] | |
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It’s some nonstandard IRC protocol. mIRC sort of works, as in you can join ch… | |
Post #AqFaIK4cFlCICYBg2K by [email protected] | |
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This is the server for https://xwis.net, the official server for lots of Westwo… | |
Post #AqFaIKDphUZOf8V2P2 by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell I think a lot of Westwood folks still maintain part of the old inf… | |
Post #AqH0VBeRfZivoNhVxY by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell It's been... well, almost 30 years, but I remember running int… | |
Post #AqH0VBmx9wWsElgJDk by [email protected] | |
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@dan @schrockwell We used to make good software that Just Worked. We don't … | |
Post #AyEz0djZCjTfusaxw8 by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell Now that is a user interface I haven't seen in a really long t… | |
Post #AyF03cLQvT8OQlI5BY by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell It's the default server if you buy the games on Steam for exam… | |
Post #AyF03cTwPpwKr9GsRk by [email protected] | |
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@hazelnot I *love* that this is being maintained. | |
Post #AyF03cb1zTbxD8aXUu by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell yeah haha it's pretty cool and does let you play online out of… | |
Post #AyF03vK0N0HVHpli64 by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell that's amazing. Likely running on a machine that's been pl… | |
Post #AyF03vQjxxfXciv5ay by [email protected] | |
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@xinit @schrockwell almost exactly this happened once at id. @icculus was like … | |
Post #AyF03vZbR0l44D4APQ by [email protected] | |
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@jfaulken @xinit @schrockwell @icculus now that those things run in VMs they ma… | |
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@jfaulken @xinit @schrockwell @icculus it was like, a main trunk ISP trying to … | |
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@schrockwell no wayyyyy!! | |
Post #AyF05U0Aup3T8QEk9g by [email protected] | |
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@TTimo "should never have been assigned"Oh the early days of the publ… | |
Post #AyF05U6CYPsLR73YY4 by [email protected] | |
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@xinit Up until 2019 the entire 44.0.0.0/8 subnet was reserved for amateur radi… | |
Post #AyF05mHqvptHqSe7Cy by [email protected] | |
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@TTimo @jfaulken @xinit @schrockwell @icculus I remember back in ~2008, a consu… | |
Post #AyF06v0G0j0FARxZ8i by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell I telnetted in for fun. (FYI, text IP in post 2/n is mistyped; rea… | |
Post #AyF084hzPbAhYdxzf6 by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell theres supposedly 5 people online in Red Alert 2 at this moment in… | |
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@xinit @jfaulken @schrockwell @icculus can't believe the stuff we got away … | |
Post #AyF09b5eVFx8HFlDay by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwellWestwood Studios, that brings back memories. | |
Post #AyF0BqVg8yMYgE0Sxc by [email protected] | |
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@TTimo id tech 4 is still yours, 3 is still Travis! | |
Post #AyF0C2tA7UHH4X5OEK by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell @cylon_jg dude. Time for you to make a new IRC friend | |
Post #AyF0DohFrA73dSMQwS by [email protected] | |
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@jawnsy @wordshaper @dan @schrockwell Did we though? It’s possible that there… | |
Post #AyF0EQ136WvnNYuGQq by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell that sure has some Visual Basic 4.x design smells | |
Post #AyF0FWSicfT7f4NK08 by [email protected] | |
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@xinit @schrockwell Turns out it's just XWIS, the official fan-maintained (… | |
Post #AyF0HPoOJtK9cAPmWe by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell Oh wow, blast from the past 😄 No idea if it still sees any kind… | |
Post #AyF0IfUZVRogXHk3Si by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell xkcd, once again! https://xkcd.com/1305/ | |
Post #AyF0IfcN2S3SvTOHcO by [email protected] | |
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@sen xkcd has always – and will always – do it first | |
Post #AyF0IrHXfiWZ6Ljooq by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell Typing Area | |
Post #AyF0IrNvHzd1Q8iulU by [email protected] | |
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@EndlessMason I mean, clearer than most UIs. Surprised there isn’t a dedicate… | |
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@schrockwell It strongly reminds me of IRC. A lot of stuff used IRC servers for… | |
Post #AyF0J5rrRTtWL2q1NA by [email protected] | |
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@aamurusko79 And you’re right! There is further investigation in the thread r… | |
Post #AyF0KpnKAmRB4FXvIO by [email protected] | |
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Did some more digging. The password sent by the client is, ostensibly, "pe… | |
Post #AyF0Kqtk4PAIURYYwC by [email protected] | |
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Monopoly did not have game lobbies, so you had to connect with peers the old-fa… | |
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@schrockwell yes, but mostly the c&c games. XWIS took over when the origina… | |
Post #AyF0N2fFIKNVYrouDw by [email protected] | |
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@TTimo it's a load-bearing subnet. @jfaulken @schrockwell @icculus | |
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@vga256 @schrockwell Borland C++ - Copyright 1994 Borland Intl. w/ CTL3DV2.DLL … | |
Post #AyF0QuJEIhN4o5MiEC by [email protected] | |
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@xinit That's my head-canon as well. | |
Post #AyF0RqMQSyOGqnJ5GK by [email protected] | |
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@sponge @TTimo This is how immortality actually works. :) | |
Post #AyF0U7f5745p5U7TPs by [email protected] | |
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@dgw (Fixed, thanks.) In that case, I’m surprised mIRC worked at all. I need … | |
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I remember this. It still works?? | |
Post #AyF0V2SzufINGVu7zk by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell @xinit I was thinking some Sun station in aa forgotten wiring clos… | |
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@sen @schrockwell was just about to send this | |
Post #AyF0XcLlTEZx8Pkbw0 by [email protected] | |
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@tramtrist Indeed! | |
Post #AyF0Y7tWBmzwy4mVLk by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell As you said they used IRC as a starting point for the protocol. Th… | |
Post #AyF0Y8PQHAWEZ1hz4y by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell looks like these are the commands supported by the server emulator… | |
Post #AyF0YxI56DwwN1fLDU by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell lol, that's amazing. | |
Post #AyF0ZBkbKz57DX7Jc8 by [email protected] | |
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@TTimo @jfaulken @xinit @schrockwell @icculus probably needs another rewrite/up… | |
Post #AyF0arEGbh0o9Mmxea by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell I love the ‘Typing Area’ | |
Post #AyF0azu2MHB53EOQs4 by [email protected] | |
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@ktneely I was thinking a pizza box could easily get misplaced :) @schrockwell | |
Post #AyF0bQ0JJZe20DWoG8 by [email protected] | |
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@sponge @jfaulken @xinit @schrockwell @icculus is that the version Travis wrote… | |
Post #AyF0dJPAow3I7D3oky by [email protected] | |
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@sponge @schrockwell this is incredible. I haven’t seen RA2 since I was a kid… | |
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@schrockwell from https://xwis.net/games/tiberian-sun/ looks like "XCC Onl… | |
Post #AyF0gnSrW5LWDCRoUi by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell i wonder if they even realise it's still running 😂 have you… | |
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@schrockwell I guess messages can't have newlines in them, so your enter ke… | |
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@erincandescent @schrockwell I wonder how they are running that game. I've … | |
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176 and not 172 ;) I know because I just joined. 6 people online.@schrockwell | |
Post #AyFbQlsjKWoEyQlj0a by [email protected] | |
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@schrockwell this is so cool!God I miss IRC chats! |