#netrek — Public Fediverse posts

@golemwire

Oof, sorry to hear it.

Makes me think back to the time I got all Fs in Fall '92 because I discovered Sun workstations and #netrek. XD

@OpenComputeDesign @sotolf @fbievan

Weirdly small package selection, or at least odd omissions

This is the only one I can comment on with confidence. Arch without the AUR is not a ton of packages. I'm not saying that's bad: that means less headaches for the maintainers. But people can get crazy spoiled with the sheer number of packages in something like Debian and its derivatives.

I mean, we still have netrek-client-cow, a package that has only seen a trickle of updates in the last decade or two.

(Aside: #netrek is an amazing game, and I'm sad that nobody's playing it.)

@ax3

I started doing an experiment to play with an Amiga 500 in an emulator and pretend I got that in Dec 1989, rather than a Macintosh SE, but I abandoned the experiment because it didn't seem quite as well made for productivity work, even though the OS was amazing and lovely.

Was it the handspring visor with the phone cartridge-like thing? The VisorPhone? That thing was LEGIT.

I had a "backpack" device that was basically an acoustic coupler for my #Palm IIIx. It came with an app for email so I could read and reply to emails on the go, and then grab the backpack device out of my bag, hold it up to the office handset, and then it would sync my email.

That was insane. The FREEDOM! lol

I got to enjoy the SparcStations at UT Austin along with @dfloyd888 in the summer and fall of '92. Great fun, sweet machines, and I failed all my classes because of #Netrek!!!! lol

Mac OS X was a dream unix OS for a while, but I don't relate to it anymore. It's been so iOSified. Hard pass.

Have you tried the BSDs? They have a lot of sweet classic BSD feels, especially Open and Net. FreeBSD is great, but it's more of a manual effort to get XOrg running, but the handbook is great.

385. THE COMPLETE INTERNET GAMER 👉 www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/the-com... #Gaming #MUD #Netrek #Doom #Descent #CommandAndConquer #PCGaming #Booksky #Book #GameHistory #Retro #MUSH #MOO #TinyMUD

@RadioAzureus @lexknowssystems

Ah neat. Reminds me a bit of #Netrek mixed with Elite

@mrawdon @sydpolk

I seem to remember playing the mac client this previous decade and thinking it looked pretty neat, but I don't remember clearly. I've been Linux-only since 2019.

I'm kinda sad that way more people know "Ogg" from the media container format (which is great), than for the #Netrek move it was named after.

#Ogg

@mrawdon

Wow, I was never that serious about it, lol

I know there's a windows client, but I don't think any of the clients have been touched in years.

The X client is pretty long in the tooth, and actually runs a little better if you run it through the 'cpulimit' utility. It doesn't know how to deal with all the free CPU cycles. It just flickers a ton.

Desperately needs an SDL rewrite, which would be cross-platform, to boot.

I'd love to see a #Netrek revival <3

@RL_Dane #Netrek is the one game where I took a systematic approach to improving my skills. I spent about 4-6 months playing only the transport ship. Once I’d gotten pretty good at fighting most other ships with the transport (as well as cloaking and transporting armies), I went back to playing the heavy cruiser and I felt just about invincible.

@RL_Dane The Internet was still a niche phenomenon when I played it, on X Windows UNIX sysrems. I know there was a macOS #Netrek client some years later, but it was terrible in my experience. No idea if there were good clients for Windows.

@mrawdon

You're literally the only other person on #Fedi that's ever mentioned #netrek, at least according to what I can find via federation.

I has a sad. Netrek was so awesome, and hardly anybody's ever heard of it.

* Wardriving (Wargames)
* Lord of the Pings
* The Lion, The Witch, and the Server Closet
* #Netrek II: The Wrath of Ogg
* The Matrix Server
* IP Wars I: The Copyright Menace
* IP Wars II: Attack of the Patent Trolls
* IP Wars III: Revenge of the MPAA
* IP Wars IV: A Torrent Hope
* IP Wars V: The Lawyers Strike Back
* IP Wars VI: Return of the Copyleft
* Tron and Troff
* Raiders of the Lost PARC
* Carmack Jones and the Temple of DOOM

#GeekAMovie
#HashtagGames

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@vga256

#netrek in 1992 go brrrr...

@Seg

@sarvo

What got your attention?

I've been playing with #OpenBSD on my #Thinkpad X200.

Flashbacks to playing with #Netrek on SPARCstation 1+'s at the University thirty years ago.

Those boxes grabbed my attention and would NOT let go.

@kumachan @[email protected]

Ok. :D

You're the first person who's ever mentioned doing assembly on SPARC, although I can't say I've met a lot of people who've worked with SPARC.

I played around with them in university 30 years ago, but mainly just for #Usenet and #Netrek XD

Man, I'm literally the only person who's mention #Netrek (by hashtag) in all of the fediverse for at least the past six months?

Sad. :(

I don't want Netrek to be forgotten. It was the first great network group-play video game.

@mjgardner @sotolf @seddon @benjaminhollon

Other than the potential for hiding security vulnerabilities, I kind of like old software. Heck, I still play Netrek occasionally. I discovered that 30 years ago!

Do you know what other software I played with 30 years ago still runs today without emulation?

NONE. :D

#OpenSource #GeriatricSoftware

(To be fair, #Netrek SERIOUSLY needs an SDL overhaul. Its graphics are super flickery)

Does anybody play #netrek anymore?

If you're a bored #C coder, the client could really use some updating 😅

@[email protected] @dfloyd888
Oh yeah, and I failed all my classes that fall because of #Usenet and #netrek