Dopefish lives
Oh yeah… I forgot the dopefish appears in Quake 0.8, so I added in a save file to get right to him in the jdosbox version….
Quake dopefish..
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sixteen year aniversary of the Qtest1 (quake test) release
OK, well it actually was 2/24/1996 …
iD still has the download on their FTP server..
Anyways I managed to meet the right people and score a beta copy of Quake! The mysterious 0.8 or ‘beta 3’ version. Â So I thought you guys would love it, and what better way to enjoy these old things than jdosbox.
And of course I’ve put up all the versions I’ve been able to find so far. Â Now I just need a fun way to network all of this stuff.
got a shout out from a quake user…
on celephais.net …
What do you think, OS X PPC users vs OS/2 users?
LOL
I know there aren’t any non banking OS/2 users left.
Me getting killed @ quake
well people are awake now… check out the chaos!
QuakeWorld client for OS/2 update
following on the heels of the last QuakeWorld client for MS-DOS, I’ve updated the OS/2 build.
I was going to show it off in action but it’s too late, and everyone in the Netherlands is asleep…
Oh well.
Download qw.exe or the source.
3 1/2″ disks vs the 5 1/4″ disks…
So I’ve been talking with Frank Sapone about recovering old data and how I’ve had the worst luck with old 3 1/2″ disks. Â Even sealed stuff like the MS-DOS client components of SQL Server 4.21a which Microsoft chose not to put on the CD-ROM, but rather on floppy diskette … which are not readable.
What is surprising is that not only has he had the same luck with 10-15 year old 3 1/2″ disks, but with 26 year old 5 1/4″ disks is that he can read them fine.
That is right, 26 year old  disks work fine with a good Panisonic 5 1/4″ drive mechanism, including a box of random disks he bought on e-bay that went through the old fashioned metal scanners, that he thought at best was a bulk lot of junk, he could read 100% of them with no errors.
I can only wonder how many people are sitting on ‘good media’ still factory sealed to only find out they are completely worthless.
If you’ve got old stuff, you better read it NOW… Otherwise it’ll probably never work, esp if it is 3 1/2″.
Dell 4100 networking kerfuffle!!!!
So I’ve had this old Dell 4100 I’ve bought from the salvation army…
Anyways, if you look at the dell page..
You’ll see clearly that the networking component is a 3com 3c905c.
Instead, thanks to an OpenBSD cd-rom I was able to find out, that it is an Intel 82562 aka 100B.
Talk about way off the mark! Â And at least I’ve managed to get my OS/2 2.11 backup’d and restored onto the disk..!
QuakeWorld for DOS updates..
Remember my old Quake port to MS-DOS that included that WatTcp package so that you could play on the internet under glorious MS-DOS? Â Well it’s kind of taken a life onto its own, and thanks to the hard work of Frank Sapone, it picked up all kinds of updates including:
- Chat buffer upto 32 lines
- Unbindall protection.
- 1600×1200 VESA support. Thanks to RayeR for suggestion.
- SHOW_UPTIME CVAR. See how long you’ve been playing :P.
- SHOW_TIME CVAR. Set 1 for Military time, or 2 for 12hr AM/PM format.
- (QDOS) All 5 drivers can coexist! BWTCP, IPX, MPATH, WATT32, and Serial/Modem. (Thanks to sezero of Hexen 2: HoT port).
- (QDOS) CL_NODEMO. Disabled startup demos! You can also use -nodemo.
- (QDOS) PQ_FULLPITCH and CL_FULLPITCH support.
- (QWDOS) Menu options for V_CONTENTBLEND, NET_SHOWCHAT, and NET_SHOWGFX. These cvars will also be saved to your config.cfg.
- F_VERSION reply.
- (QWDOS) Players will emit a dynamic light and a spinning quad if they are typing, silver key if they are AFK, gold key if they are AFK and typing (only works on servers that support setinfo chat).
- (QWDOS) Typing and AFK broadcasting to servers that support it.
- (QWDOS) /AFK to manually invoke AFK mode.
- (QWDOS) /NET_SHOWCHAT 1 to have the console (and top of the screen) tell you who is typing or AFK when it occurs.
- (QDOS) Gun model is still drawn with FOV over 90.
- (QDOS) /V_CONTENTBLEND and a menu option for it. This cvar is also saved to your config.cfg.
- /JOY_RECALIBRATE so you can recalibrate your joystick on-the-fly!
- /V_CONTENTBLEND 0 now functions just like gl_polyblend (i.e. disabling powerup flashes, damage flashes, etc.).
- /SND_RESTART
- -NOGUS parameter. Useful if you have two sound cards and want to disable initializing the Gravis Ultrasound.
- Extended limits, you should be able to play most maps. (WARPSPASM mod will never be supported unless someone is willing to help with the code!)
Whew isn’t that great?
I’ll have to check to see how much of this I can backport to OS/2…
You can download it, and more here.  And in the meantime I’ve put up my server on 68.68.97.224 … Enjoy!
Microsoft vs Google.
So I log onto an older XP VM, hit google, and blamo,  Google Exploit:JS/Blacole.BW .. What on earth is that? is google infected…???
So it seems this is just a false alarm, update your definitions and it’ll take care of the ‘problem’ …. But you have to wonder is there really someone on google, that MS forgot to whitelist..? Â Much like how antivirus / spyware products will not show you government spyware…
Oh brave new world.
Saw this on Sega-16.com
Its from the group 2080, simply called “My Megadrive”