@mrawdon @sydpolk

I seem to remember playing the mac client this previous decade and thinking it looked pretty neat, but I don't remember clearly. I've been Linux-only since 2019.

I'm kinda sad that way more people know "Ogg" from the media container format (which is great), than for the #Netrek move it was named after.

#Ogg

@mrawdon

Wow, I was never that serious about it, lol

I know there's a windows client, but I don't think any of the clients have been touched in years.

The X client is pretty long in the tooth, and actually runs a little better if you run it through the 'cpulimit' utility. It doesn't know how to deal with all the free CPU cycles. It just flickers a ton.

Desperately needs an SDL rewrite, which would be cross-platform, to boot.

I'd love to see a #Netrek revival <3

@RL_Dane #Netrek is the one game where I took a systematic approach to improving my skills. I spent about 4-6 months playing only the transport ship. Once I’d gotten pretty good at fighting most other ships with the transport (as well as cloaking and transporting armies), I went back to playing the heavy cruiser and I felt just about invincible.

@RL_Dane The Internet was still a niche phenomenon when I played it, on X Windows UNIX sysrems. I know there was a macOS #Netrek client some years later, but it was terrible in my experience. No idea if there were good clients for Windows.

@mrawdon

You're literally the only other person on #Fedi that's ever mentioned #netrek, at least according to what I can find via federation.

I has a sad. Netrek was so awesome, and hardly anybody's ever heard of it.

* Wardriving (Wargames)
* Lord of the Pings
* The Lion, The Witch, and the Server Closet
* #Netrek II: The Wrath of Ogg
* The Matrix Server
* IP Wars I: The Copyright Menace
* IP Wars II: Attack of the Patent Trolls
* IP Wars III: Revenge of the MPAA
* IP Wars IV: A Torrent Hope
* IP Wars V: The Lawyers Strike Back
* IP Wars VI: Return of the Copyleft
* Tron and Troff
* Raiders of the Lost PARC
* Carmack Jones and the Temple of DOOM

#GeekAMovie
#HashtagGames

...

This chase in the rings reminds me of my days playing #Netrek and dodging torpedoes.

#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

@sotolf

Figured you'd know, but it's probably before your time as well.

It was a move in #Netrek where you go after another player, no matter the cost. You frag them (to use fps parlance), even if you end up getting fragged yourself in the process.

@benjaminhollon @pixelherodev @sirber @fbievan

@vga256

#netrek in 1992 go brrrr...

@Seg

@sarvo

What got your attention?

I've been playing with #OpenBSD on my #Thinkpad X200.

Flashbacks to playing with #Netrek on SPARCstation 1+'s at the University thirty years ago.

Those boxes grabbed my attention and would NOT let go.

@kumachan @saidsoftly

Ok. :D

You're the first person who's ever mentioned doing assembly on SPARC, although I can't say I've met a lot of people who've worked with SPARC.

I played around with them in university 30 years ago, but mainly just for #Usenet and #Netrek XD

Man, I'm literally the only person who's mention #Netrek (by hashtag) in all of the fediverse for at least the past six months?

Sad. :(

I don't want Netrek to be forgotten. It was the first great network group-play video game.

@mjgardner @sotolf @seddon @benjaminhollon

Other than the potential for hiding security vulnerabilities, I kind of like old software. Heck, I still play Netrek occasionally. I discovered that 30 years ago!

Do you know what other software I played with 30 years ago still runs today without emulation?

NONE. :D

#OpenSource #GeriatricSoftware

(To be fair, #Netrek SERIOUSLY needs an SDL overhaul. Its graphics are super flickery)

Does anybody play #netrek anymore?

If you're a bored #C coder, the client could really use some updating 😅