[Ohrrpgce] Old OHR source zips

[James Paige]

No, it wasn't the only one, but I think it was the first one.

Spitwars had local IPX support, and in theory I think it might have had up
to 6 players, but I have no memory of ever testing more than 2 at a time.

Scrambled Eggs also used the IPX multiplayer stuff.

I also see a copy of ipxstuff.asm in the shipwars source, but I don't think
that it was ever used. I think that was was just
two-players-on-the-same-keyboard multiplayer




On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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-200
>>>>> 3-11-29.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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