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30 April 2006 - 1:17pm
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Some light relief from the ongoing debate on management consoles - a real blast from the past - from the days of SYSCON.

Here is SNIPES. It's fifteen years old this year.

You can download your own copy of SNIPES from Novell - it's part of the NetWare Lite 1.1 update. Now doesn't that make you feel warm, fuzzy and old.. Just download and run the NLSNIPES.EXE binary. 18k of DOS goodness.

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Mike Brady's picture

Was it NetWare Lite that was

Submitted by Mike Brady (not verified) on 30 April 2006 - 4:46pm.

Was it NetWare Lite that was a peer to peer type of setup? Didn't it also come with a cool vector based space shooting game? Space Wars or something like that. If memory serves me, it was similar to the arcade version of Star Wars, except network play. Wait, I think it was Personal NetWare!

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Personal NetWare and NetWare

Submitted by Martin Buckley (not verified) on 30 April 2006 - 7:23pm.

Personal NetWare and NetWare Lite were pretty much the same thing - peer-to-peer networking.

I wasn't at Novell in those days - but from outside it looked like an attempt to compete with the Microsoft Windows 3.11 (Windows for Workgroups) and Lantastic products.

I'm sure there are some un-opened copies of NetWare Lite lurking around in Provo still - unopened and in mint condition. Email me your best console designs (see previous posts) and I'll see if I can send one out.

As for the game - it was Netwars. [In truth is stranger than fiction - Caldera, now SCO, released an updated version of Netwars in the mid 1990s.]

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NetWars!!!!! Heck ya and I

Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 1 May 2006 - 6:16am.

NetWars!!!!!

Heck ya and I still have a copy! A very cool game, but you have to have an IPX stack if you want to play it!

If I remember correctly, you could have upto 4 players at once, it could not cross IPX segments ( everyone had to be on the same segment) and it was *really* fast.

Nice blast from the past.

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Martin, we used a Novell

Submitted by At Nel (not verified) on 12 July 2006 - 10:48am.

Martin, we used a Novell network at school many years ago in South Africa. We used to play network snipes all the time. I would very much like to create a setup where we could play this game again on a network.

The thing is I only have access to PCs running Windows. I'm familiar with VMWare too so perhaps that's the way to go. What would be required to get this set up in a Windows environment? Any pointers appreciated - I could research further and give feedback here.

Martin Buckley's picture

I'm sure it runs in a DOS

Submitted by Martin Buckley (not verified) on 12 July 2006 - 1:49pm.

I'm sure it runs in a DOS Window on Windows.. might need IPX though..

At Nel's picture

From the documentation and

Submitted by At Nel (not verified) on 17 July 2006 - 8:58am.

From the documentation and through some experimentation it seems like Snipes actually uses a shared file for communicating player data between nodes. All players create a mapped drive and execute the same EXE. It works independently of the implementation to share the drive so IPX not required. Still have a few quirks to get it working properly though - got a few unexpected crashes and frame drops.

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