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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Omg a 10base2 LAN party.

I'm a little stressed thinking about what you even had to do on the software side to get everyone working properly; was it even IP?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

The game of choice was Warcraft II, so all we needed was IPX, but I had brought over a bunch of EtherLink II cards. Could have done the TCP in DOS easily enough, but with the 'substandard' cables, IPX was a lot more performant.