[Ohrrpgce] Old OHR source zips

[Ralph Versteegen]

Was ipxufo the only HR game with network support? Both the network code,
and the whole game, looks really short and simple. Having the other end of
the connection a few feet away does away with a lot of the problems of
over-internet networking, seems pretty ideal for having fun with it.

On 20 May 2017 at 03:21, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:

> The source code to givefile and getfile is lost to time, but I did just
> realize that the IPX networking code that they use still exists here
> https://james.hamsterrepublic.com/hamster/ipxufo/asmcode/ipxstuff.asm
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ah, that's rather neat! I actually read zz_486.bat last week when looking
>> at the source from 2000 and I noticed givefile. I figured it was a network
>> transfer program, and with a name like that guessed it was a custom program
>> or batch file. And then you answer my question a few days later :)
>>
>>
>> On 20 May 2017 at 02:20, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Opps!
>>>
>>> I had those files uploaded chmod 600 instead of 644
>>>
>>> I have fixed them, and normalized their names
>>>
>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-source-
>>> 2001-06-07.zip
>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-source-
>>> 2002-07-10.zip
>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-source-
>>> 2003-11-29.zip
>>>
>>> Looking on those is a blast to the past. In the 2001 zip, I can see a
>>> batch file called zz_486.bat
>>> It calls a program called "givefile"
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, My computer, and my cousin Brian's computer
>>> were sitting side-by-side connected by a single ethernet cable with no
>>> hub/switch.
>>>
>>> His was a Pentium running Windows 95, and mine was a 486 running DOS,
>>> and Windows 3.1
>>>
>>> Our attempts to get Windows networking file sharing to work repeatedly
>>> ended in frustration, but we knew that IPX networking was working fine
>>> because we could play multiplayer DOOM and Hexen, so Brian dug into some
>>> IPX documentation, and wrote givefile.exe and getfile.exe (I think they
>>> were in asm, not quickbasic, but I am not sure) They would do a crude file
>>> transfer
>>>
>>> So that zz_486.bat was my first network backup script for the ohrrpgce.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 6:31 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> James, you mentioned that you found some more backup copies of the OHR
>>>> source code and uploaded them to http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohr
>>>> rpgce/archive/. (For some reason I can't find the email about it,
>>>> maybe it was on IRC). Half a year later I'm finally getting around to
>>>> downloading them and splicing them into the git-svn history. I see three
>>>> new files in that directory:
>>>>
>>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/ohrrpgce-src-2003-11-29.zip
>>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/wander-src_2001_06_07.zip
>>>> http://hamsterrepublic.com/ohrrpgce/archive/wander-src_2002-07-10.zip
>>>>
>>>> But I can't download any of them, they all give a 403 error!
>>>>
>>>> (Also, these are inconsistently named with the other
>>>> ohrrpgce-source-*.zip files)
>>>>
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