Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-14 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/13/21 2:44 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote: The Doom application contained a network stack that would handle the higher layers. IIRC, you still had to load a packet driver shim, but perhaps not. It's been a lng time since I've done it. I know that Doom was an IPX capable network g

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-13 Thread Cameron Kaiser via cctalk
> > 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. > > Yes. Thank you. IPX. That was the network layer. Mac Doom even plays over Apple

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-13 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 5:06 PM Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: > 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. Yes. Thank you. IPX. That was

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-13 Thread Mike Katz via cctalk
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 cct

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-13 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 3:09 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 pas

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-13 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
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

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-12 Thread Ethan Dicks via cctalk
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 4:27 PM Jonathan Haddox via cctalk wrote: > I'll be following your progress with interest, I just installed Coax into > the walls of my computer playhouse so I can ARCNet with my S-100 system. I > have an ARCNet packet sniffer that can be loaned out if you would find it

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-12 Thread Jonathan Chapman via cctalk
Mike, I have some Pure Data PDI508+ ARCnet cards kicking around. I used them to develop the repair board for the funky DS1292 "Eliminator" (nonvolatile, battery-backed *shift* *register*) that they use. All, If you should happen to have Pure Data PDI508+ cards, we have rebuilds for the Dallas

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-12 Thread Jonathan Haddox via cctalk
Multiplexer (DM01, etc.) (Josh Dersch)   3. Re: Cheap PDP-8 boards on eBait (Ethan Dicks)   4. Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards       (Michael Brutman)   5. Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards (ED SHARPE)   6. Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arc

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-12 Thread Grant Taylor via cctalk
On 12/12/21 3:05 AM, devin davison via cctalk wrote: Greetings, Hi Devin, I had quite a few arcnet cards laying around a while back, I had picked up a ton of them from the back storage of a datacenter that was clearing out surplus equipment. I am uncertain of how many I still have in storage.

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-12 Thread devin davison via cctalk
Greetings, I had quite a few arcnet cards laying around a while back, I had picked up a ton of them from the back storage of a datacenter that was clearing out surplus equipment. I am uncertain of how many I still have in storage. How many do you need? If you are able to wait a couple days, I can

Re: Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-11 Thread ED SHARPE via cctalk
I remember  you  could  get  arcnet   for  HP  150  also   Ed#  In a message dated 12/11/2021 9:01:15 PM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes:  I'm using debug logs to try to debug flow control issues when using mTCPand a packet driver that presents itself as Ethernet but actu

Wanted: IBM PC compatible 8 or 16 bit Arcnet cards

2021-12-11 Thread Michael Brutman via cctalk
I'm using debug logs to try to debug flow control issues when using mTCP and a packet driver that presents itself as Ethernet but actually uses ARCNET. I've gotten to the point where I just want to have an Arcnet in the house. Especially since I might just modify mTCP to work with Arcnet packet d