Re:Yet another macOS privacy protections bypass
by Razengan on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:48AM
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That’s even more impressive!
Games with more than 2 players each with their own private screen was where the PC really started to come into its own as a gaming platform.
But now I miss couch multiplayer with friends trying to yank or knock the gamepads out of each other’s hands..
When I was a teenager, we had three game-capable PCs, but only two had LAN cards. I also had an underpowered LAN-connected Linux machine. I connected the non-LAN PC to the Linux box with a parallel cable. Linux could route packets between the LAN and parallel-cable network. But DOS games find each other with local broadcasts which don't forward. No game had a function to specify a network address to connect to. I needed to bridge the networks. Linux could bridge ethernet, but the parallel network wasn't ethernet. So I copied the source of a kernel module and modified it to bridge IPX packets between the LAN network and the parallel-cable network.
It worked! My friends and I could play THREE-PLAYER games! DN3D, C&C Red Alert, Quake, Descent, Terminal Velocity, etc. Network drive sharing even worked. It was glorious.
Nobody around me understood what I had done.