What was the name of that app that let you play IPX online...please remind me or I'll go crazy trying to remember!
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Mike Hammett <wispawirel...@ics-il.net>wrote: > I remember having to use IPX connectivity for games. IP has really > revolutionized many things... though now with VPNs, you could play an IPX > based game across the Internet. > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Jeremy Parr" <jeremyp...@gmail.com> > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 10:53 AM > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Subject: Re: [WISPA] XBOX 360 > > > 2009/10/5 David E. Smith <d...@mvn.net>: > >> Mike Hammett wrote: > >>> I miss it back in the day when game servers were centrally hosted. > >> > >> These things, like many things, seem to go in cycles. We've gone from > >> central (text-based MUDs, games on the "old" AOL and CompuServe) to > >> distributed (DOOM and Quake, the first couple generations of FPS games) > >> to centralized (more recent FPS games based on the Half-Life engine, > >> though players still can host their own) to some of each (right now, > >> where there's a good mix of people playing centralized MMO games like > >> World of Warcraft, along with player-hosted PS3 and 360 games). > > > > Back in my day, we had to run Fossil or IPX if we wanted multiplayer. > > None of this fancy schmancy IP connectivity! You kids today have it > > too good! > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
