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Kali is still alive even though outdated. Very fun!

For me, it was on 26400-28000 dial-up connections including Kali (it still exists). IIRC, the shareware/demo(nstration) had 20 minutes time limit so players would just disconnect and reconnect to rejoin the game at any time. Haha.

Yep, I thought this was about that old Kali program. I still have my serial number!

In 2011, Duke Nukem Forever only supports eight-player multiplayer. EIGHT PLAYER multiplayer.

What does Gearbox think this is, the 90s?

Wonder if it works over IPX too, like the good ol' days. I miss Kali!

http://www.kali.net/ ?

Kali works with lan games (bridges local network over the web). Last I heard SC2 doesn't have pure lan games. It all goes through battle.net.

http://www.kali.net/ ?

Has anyone written a program to trick it into working properly via the Internet? --

Someone did that about a decade ago, fortunately it is still available, for $20 for pretty much forever.

I'm pretty sure Kali came out before WarcraftII (1994'ish). If that isn't prior art I don't know what is. Jay Cotton could confirm it.

http://www.kali.net/

This is pretty cool, I don't recall my user ID off the top of my head, but I remember I had to CALL them on the phone to give them my CC info, lol

That was fun times back then, I did some War2, but I was mainly a Duke3D / Cases' Ladder competitive kinda guy, still good stuff!

Well, programs like Kali (http://www.kali.net/) have been around longer then battle.net. So, I'm sure the online gaming would continue in one form or another. Hell, this is how a lot of people that I know are able to play Hellfire: The Dark mod with others.

There's a product called Kali for Windows that tunnels IPX over TCP/IP, worked pretty good years ago, and apparently still has a following.

Once upon a time I even got WarCraft II running in dosemu using Kali's DOS IPXTCP/IP stack.

and It can go in my filing cabinet right between my lifetime to Tivo and lifetime to Kali. Then again, they were both reasonably priced, $999 is a bit steep for a name.

Few things missing..

He mentions ten, but forgets kali and kahn (sorry no link) Kali was the first commercial IPX tcp wrapper. Duke nukem, doom, descent were all played over kali.

Also to note, dwango. The thresh sponsored dial up doom networking service.

Then onto Ultima Online for the first graphical mmorpg.

Too much missing for my taste.

Kali -- it does dynamic list updating, it is ad-free, and they're offering free registrations now. It's a far superior game browser.

Speaking of, Kali is still around and somewhat alive and for the time being, completely free(as in beer). Doesn't support everything but for what it does it works very well.

Yay! If you're not causeing problems on Kali you're getting moderated down here! Nice to see you Ice.

www.kali.net

Nope, good 'ol Kali. Back in the old days when it was just a DOS application, before they put in all that fancy Windows stuff. I used to use it constantly for Descent, used it intermittently for Descent 2, and haven't used it since.

These are the games that keep me rebooting into windows:

Need for Speed III
Need for Speed IV
Falcon 4.0
Starcraft
Mechwarrior 2 - Netmech
Mechwarrior 3
Final Fantasy 7

Yes, Starcraft plays well in WINE, and I did get Netmech running in DOSEMU, HOWEVER, I play them over the net via Kali, and Kali95 does NOT work in WINE, and I did get KaliDOS on the net from within DOSEMU, however, the network code slowed to a virtual standstill when I tried to play a netmech game (netmech ran beautifully..)

Future games that NEED to come out for Linux:

Halo
Diablo 2
Warcraft 3

-- iCEBaLM

Having just installed a cable modem I ran into all sorts of problems getting IPMASQ working. I ended up having to install RH6 several times because of all the problems and my own monkeying around.

Assuming that you have the basic machine working and it works as a gateway for WWW based applications, the next thing is getting the IP MASQ modules loaded.

All the how-tos and do it yourself pages have not seemed to keep up with the various versions of software as well as the move to IPChains, which is a real pain in the a**.

With RH6 I could not get it to work until I did the following (note: no kernel recompilation):

in /etc/rc.d/rc.local I added (note: eth0 is my local net, eth1 is connected to my cable modem):


echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
ipchains -P forward DENY
ipchains -A forward -i eth1 -j MASQ

insmod ip_masq_ftp
insmod ip_masq_raudio
insmod ip_masq_irc
insmod ip_masq_icq
insmod ip_masq_quake



This took care of all the general use items. I have not had a single problem with FTP, IRC or ICQ yet).

The ip_masq_icq module is not in the standard distribution of RH6, so you need to grab it from the following page:

ip_masq_icq http://members.tripod.com/~djsf/masq-icq/


For games, there are going to be major problems trying to run more than a single client from behind the gateway machine. To get around this I simply signed up 2 accounts with Kali and grabbed the Linux version of their proxy (binary only) from here:

kProxy http://www.kali.net/js/software/kproxy. html

As a side benefit, it is a Socks5 proxy, so anything that supports it can be run through kproxy.

Do *not* try to autostart the kproxy from you module scripts. I created a user just to run kproxy and login and start the proxy manually.

This may or may not work for you system, but it took me a whole weekend to get it running so if it works, maybe you'll have saved a little time.

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P.S. If anyone can tell me how I could autostart kproxy in another terminal automatically, let me know. My gateway machine does not even have X installed, so no KDE,Gnome solutions please.