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Article #83537Re: want 386 class ipx games
From: Jeffrey Garant
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00
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Nathan Carter (AC) wrote: > > > > >Check stores like Circuit City or Staples. They usually have older > > > >games cheap. I got some flight sim/combat game that was ipx > > > >compatible and ran great on my old slow 486 (still using the old > > > >beast :) ). Unfortunately, I can't remember the name, and I dunno if > > > >it would run in only 2.5 M RAM. > > > > > > Are you perhaps thinking of the "NetWars" game which shipped with > > > Novell DOS? An upgraded version comes with Caldera DOS > > > (www.caldera.com) but I can't say how well it would work on a 386. > > Does Scorched Earth work over a network? I think the latest version might. > It's only $10 to register, but the author *might* cut you some slack on > multiple copies if it's for a public-service-type thing. Just do a web > search for it, I'm sure you'll find it. Even if it doesn't support > networking, you can have several people playing on one machine.. > > - Nathan / Mega > > /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ > |Nathan Carter Senior Student Technology Consultant| > |Academic Computing University of South Florida, Tampa| > |Voice: (813) 974-1222 email: nca...@ritchie.acomp.usf.edu| > \-------------------------------------------------------------------/ The latest one I have had the digitized moutnains, and that one did not support network play.. Dont know what version it was..
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From: Jeffrey Garant <Jgaran...@fc.ford.com> Subject: Re: want 386 class ipx games Date: 1997/12/04 Message-ID: <3486B52D.3DB4@fc.ford.com> X-Deja-AN: 295093689 References: <34601419.478559F9@eckerd.edu.nospam> <346b073c.12450840@news.visi.net> <346a3397.17493626@delphi.bc.edu> <347305a9.1689866@news.highfiber.com> <01bcfa60$26c0b860$20801e8d@entlp2.et.tu-dresden.de> <Pine.GSO.3.96.971201200153.28882D-100000@ritchie.acomp.usf.edu> Organization: Ford Motor Company Reply-To: JGa...@fc.ford.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,rec.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardw MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit