It’s in the current source dump here.
I never had one back in the day, so I have to see if I can find glide for DOS and some kind of demo thing.
Considering Quake III is now reported to work, I guess I should just break down and install Windows ME or something equally horrible.
Gibson
What can I say, one of the most influential authors of my misspent youth.
As always, if you’ve never checked out Neuromancer, then by all means do so.
vSphere Hypervisor version 6
I’m still running 5.5 at the office, so I guess it’s a matter of hooking up a monitor, dumping my VMs, and trying the upgrade and hoping it doesn’t destroy everything…
You can download it here, for free as in beer.
And if that isn’t crazy enough, they rebranded themselves as SEGA Games.
No, really.
SEGA used to stand for SErvice, GAmes, so now they’ve just re-named themselves Service Games Games. Â I guess it hails back to Windows 2000 being built on Windows New Technology, Technology.
But consoles are in decline, mobile phones and PC is where the market is, so it’s no surprise. Â The only other question is how many more times am I going to end up paying for Altered Beast, Phantasy Star II, and various genesis games.
Leonard
To say that Star Trek influenced many nerds of today is a massive understatement. Â From the over estimating engineer, the surly physician, the cocky captain to the logical science officer the show had everything that children of all ages could not only appreciate, but aspire to be.
It was sad news to wake up to find that Leonard had passed from complications with his pulmonary disease.  Even though he quit smoking some 30 years ago it simply wasn’t enough.
We are fortunate in this digital age where we can celebrate his life’s works, and remember him for the role that made him a world recognized icon.
The final frontier
Indeed a role model to many has departed to that final frontier.
Leonard Nimoy was 83.
The best RPG since FFVII
So yeah I’ve got this extra copy of KOTOR kicking around and I should do some kind of giveaway or contest or something. Â As a matter of fact looking at steam I have a few extra bobs and ends…. Any good suggestions?
Also for anyone who keeps up on current events and posts, you have exactly 12 hours left to partake in the humble bundle to get Star Wars KOTOR for ‘name your own price’…
Name your own price…
Which means you could score it for as low as say, $1 USD right now. Â Personally I wanted Dark Forces as I haven’t played that one in ages. Â The rest I already have, so here we are.
While it’s a great game IMHO, it is prone to some weird crashes like the cut scenes trying to change to unsupported resolutions, hardware shadow issues, and the like.  But with it’s recent ports to both iOS, and Android this game will certainly be around for quite some time.
It’s a shame there won’t be a KOTOR3.
I finally found the download link for Vivaldi!
Vivaldi
It looks pretty promising, from the people who brought us Opera. Â I’d encourage you to check it out!
So with all the excitement with jsDOSBox it was about time I tried to get something from my old java dosbox stuff running again.
As a quick note, as of right now, you cannot boot into a disk image… Nor can you really run bat files, or any kind of drivers beforehand. Â It’s basically either use a script that adds files one by one, or use an image file which gets mounted, and you run your exe/com file from that.
So here we go, back again is the old Fortran Dungeon (zork) compiled with QuickC for Windows, running on the working model version of Windows 3.0.
Dungeon via F2C
For anyone interested my old post about this Fortran/Zork adventure is here.
I could also call this ‘going with the flow’… So instead of fighting the system, like I usually do today we are going to do things the way everyone else enjoys doing things, and that is building stuff with tun/tap and bridges.
YUCK.
Ok, so I’m using Windows, and that is what I’m assuming you are as well for this ‘guide’.
The first thing you’ll need is the tun/tap driver for Windows, and the easiest way to get that is via OpenVPN. Â The next thing you’ll need is Qemu, again I’m just using the pre-compiled stuff right here.
Go ahead, and install them both. Â With OpenVPN installed, when you open your control panel, and check out your network interfaces you’ll see something like this:
One NIC, One Tap
Good.
Now for my example, I’m going to add another TAP interface. Â TAP’s are only good for a 1:1 relationship with the VMs. Â Yes, that is why I prefer something else, but again we are going to do things today the way everyone else does them.
Now for me, I run the ‘addtap’ batch file located in the C:\Program Files\TAP-Windows\bin folder as Administrator, and this now gives me two TAP adapters.  I highly recommend disabling TCP/IP v4 and v6 on the TAP adapters, along with the MS client/server stuff.  We are only using these for bridging the VMs so we dont’ need the host computer to participate in this network.
Now for the fun part. Â I’m assuming you have your NetWare server and client images all ready to go (I guess I can go over installation again some other day), and now we get to bind each one to a SINGLE TAP instance. Â Also don’t forget that each machine needs a UNIQUE MAC address. Â One of them can use the default settings, but the other one cannot.
I’m going to start my server like this:
\Progra~1\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe -m 16 -hda netware312.disk -device ne2k_isa,netdev=usernet,mac=52:43:aa:00:00:11,irq=10,iobase=0x300 -netdev “tap,ifname=Local Area Connection 2,id=usernet”
As you can see, this gives me a NE2000 on port 0x300, IRQ 10 and sets the MAC address to 52:43:aa:00:00:11 .  And this sets it on the first TAP adapter, lovingly called “Local Area Connection 2″ because the primary adapter is called “Local Area Connection“.  Also take note of the quotes in this command line, as it’ll encapsulate the full default name of the TAP adapter.  The other alternative is to just rename the adapters, but where is the fun in that?
Now for my client:
\Program Files\qemu\qemu-system-i386.exe” -m 16 -hda client.disk -soundhw sb16,adlib,pcspk -device ne2k_isa,irq=10,iobase=0x300,netdev=usernet -netdev “tap,ifname=Local Area Connection 3,id=usernet”
As you can see the primary difference here is that it’s connected to “Local Area Connection 3” which is my second TAP interface.
Now with both virtual machines running the interfaces will turn on!
But as you’ll quickly discover, neither machine can talk to each-other, as they are islands so to speak.
Two virtual machines on islands.
Now for the fun part, we highlight the two TAP interfaces, right click, and turn on the built in bridge function of Windows!
highlight and select
And once that is done, a new Network Bridge interface will show up, transfer what layer 3 settings there are, and then setup the layer 2 bridge between the TAP interfaces.
Bridge activating…
And once the bridge interface has gone live, give spanning tree 15 seconds to do it’s thing, and YES you can now login to the NetWare server!
Logging in from the MS-DOS VM to the NetWare 3.12 VM
And there you go! Â This is the ‘approved’ way to do virtual networking with Qemu.
Now I know what you are thinking, this is great for VM’s and all that jazz, but what if I say have an office FULL of old PC’s and I want them onto my new fangled ancient server?
No problem, right click on the bridge, and select delete. Â This will put everything back the way it was, sending the VMs back to their own TAP interfaces. Â Now select all the interfaces, and then setup a bridge (I suppose you could edit the existing one to include the physical interface…) and now once the bridge has been setup, it’ll now be talking out the local Ethernet interface.
One quick note, bridging and WiFi tend to not go hand in hand. Â Some interfaces will work, but the rule seems to be the vast majority of setups will not. Â So don’t complain if yours didn’t work, you are just part of the 99.99999%. Â And if you did get yours to work, well good for you.
