It is not too late to register your Trumpet Winsock.

[ra6bit@infosec.exchange]

@gloriouscow Sorry, I went with OS/2 Warp! instead.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@gloriouscow Ohhhh, mIRC! Used the heck out of that until I switched to irssi on a bouncer somewhere. Good times!
I wonder what's going on in IRCNet nowadays...

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@ra6bit I was only vaguely aware of OS/2 at the time

I just assumed it was Businessy Software

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@christopherkunz it's about like you remember, netsplits, pointless arguments, and regular flooding attacks from trolls

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@gloriouscow Wow, just like I left it. mirkforce still around? Channel takeovers?

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@christopherkunz the latest thing is just a group called SuperNETS being racist with botnets instead of doing anything clever

[cr1901@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow For some reason I thought Peter Tattam passed away a few years ago... guess not :o.

Anyways, Trumpet Winsock is weird to me- you start it as a DOS TSR and afterwords it "does the right thing" once you start Win 3.x without Windows destroying its data structures. I wonder how that's managed (if I had infinite time, I'd disassemble it to find out)?

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@cr1901 Hm, looks like there was an earlier "Trumpet TCP" that was a TSR. I don't recall a TSR element to Trumpet Winsock, but I could be wrong.

[cr1901@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow My memory isn't infallible (as much as I wish it was). I would need to look at files I haven't touched in 15 years to check, but I still have them.

IIRC, I ran Trumpet in a HAL-9000 build of DOSBOX w/ NE2000 and Win 3.x (I know that's not supported, but I didn't care at the time lmao). And to get Trumpet to work, I had to start a TSR before starting Win 3.x.

[viss@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow ... does.. does it play modem sounds?

[hp@mastodon.tmm.cx]

@gloriouscow oh no, but do I want 3.0 or 5.0...

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@hp just register both to be safe

[lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@gloriouscow neural years

[ltning@pleroma.anduin.net]

@gloriouscow paid but got "something went wrong" from paypal afterwards. Money gone. Will ping him tomorrow if nothing more shows. Or just .. consider it a donation. :D

[gnomon@mastodon.social]

@gloriouscow psst @waffles @paultk @rmcauley @jameskoole.ca @jameskoole 👀↑↑ 🐄🐄🎺🪟🧦🎵

[pixel@oldbytes.space]

@gloriouscow WAIT. Is it called Trumpet Winsock because he played a trumpet back then, or did he start playing the trumpet AFTER Winsock?

[rmcauley@famichiki.jp]

@gnomon@mastodon I'd already seen this and shared it IMMEDIATELY with my online gaming friends.

I forgot I'm the oldest one. 😮‍💨

[ricci@discuss.systems]

@gloriouscow the world really is full of things