When I was young I had a #LEGO computer game called LEGO LOCO. It's a game where you can build a 2D LEGO city with train tracks running through it. I loved this game.
I've created an ISO image from the CD a few years back and now I've put it to work.
I've tried to run it under #Wine, but I could not make it work. The game only runs in some specific resolutions and color 16-bit color depth (which I managed to work around using Xephyr). I managed to install it under Wine and have it run. But I could not go farther than the initial screen.
So I installed #Windows 98 SE into a VM. Since I was at it, I created a #Vagrant image anyone can use. It has working display and audio drivers. Link below.
This way I (and whoever) can quickly launch a VM and install games from this era without having to deal with the quirks or Wine.
https://portal.cloud.hashicorp.com/vagrant/discover/goncalor/windows-98-se
Now, other than playing the game, I wanted to try something.
See, I knew for long this game was playable on a LAN. I knew it had tunnels to where you could direct your trains and they would end up in someone else's computer. How cool is that?! 😁
But when I was young, I could never try it. Two computers in a room? That didn't happen at home, where I played.
So I want to try it now!
Let's refer to the manual to understand better what LAN features are available.
Wait what?! You could actually send your trains with postcards not only to your LAN, but to the Internet? Anywhere in the world?! 🤯
And on the LAN you could attack files to postcards! Up to 1 MB. Sharing files on the LAN by train. Amazing!
https://archive.org/details/LEGOLoco-manual-US-IB2G-LOC3/page/n1/mode/2up
Gonçalo Ribeiro
Mäh W.