gloriouscowIt is not too late to register your Trumpet Winsock.
Johann Visagieokay hold the fuck up
Peter Tattam, the author of Trumpet Winsock, has a SOUNDCLOUD
and you can listen to him PLAYING THE TRUMPET
Peter Tattam
My musical skills are piano, keyboards, trumpet, vocal soloist in contemporary and classical, song writing, arranging, midi sequencing. In real life, I'm a software developer and I've also built MID
Wikipedia is telling me that Trumpet Winsock 1.0A was released in February of 1994. Windows 95 came out in late August of 1995.
18 months. I would have sworn I spent years exploring the internet on Windows 3.1. Memory is a funny thing.
Elissa@gloriouscow Yeah. That said, I remember when '95 came out a LOT of us, especially gamers, were SOOO anti-windows 95 we held off getting it for aaaages. I remember approaching it with curiosity in stores, but refused tog o near it until I had no choice.
(More specifically... until GLQuake/QuakeWorld came out)
@vampiress My friend who had some connections to the warez scene had been running a Chicago beta for a while and hyping up how great it was, so I picked it up pretty much as soon as it came out.
We still had a 386DX-40. Installation took a while.
@gloriouscow AMD one? I had one of those too around then, actually. I loved it. It outperformed my friend's 486SX in a bunch of ways.
@vampiress i could see that if they had the 25Mhz version and didn't install any L2 cache. otherwise a 486 should run circles around a 386.
@gloriouscow This absolutely was bottom spec. 25Mhz. The cheapest 486 friend's mother could buy, I think. She used it for spreadsheets and documents.
sherbang@gloriouscow @vampiress SO much hype over Chicago in all the computer magazines back then.
Jernej Simončič �@gloriouscow I only got internet access in early '96, and by then I already had Windows 95. I did see Trumpet at a friend a few months earlier, but never used it personally.
@jernej__s before Trumpet Winsock we were all just sitting around on our butts in text mode terminal emulators using Lynx to read gopher sites about trains
Alaric Snell-Pym@jernej__s @gloriouscow I used Trumpet to dial into my Demon Internet account, as an upgrade from KA9Q under DOS... Had to use it under 95/98 as well to connect my PC to the university accommodation Internet connection, which was via a fixed serial line to a PPP server in the basement; windows' PPP stack assumed you were using a modem and couldn't be configured to just login without dialling first! This meant we were immune to the MS IP stack bugs like ping-of-death...
LR@gloriouscow neural years
Karl Baron@gloriouscow My only trumpet winsock experience was at our school library, and by this time it was probably already 1997
mmu_man@gloriouscow ROTFL we need to play that on @underscore
William D. Jones@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)?
@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.
@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@gloriouscow ... does.. does it play modem sounds?
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Eric Vitiello@gloriouscow WAIT. Is it called Trumpet Winsock because he played a trumpet back then, or did he start playing the trumpet AFTER Winsock?
@pixel it's almost certainly that he played the trumpet and named his company after his musical passion. But you never know...
Rob Ricci@gloriouscow the world really is full of things
Hakan Bayındır@gloriouscow Art feeds art.