Shanti’s Dispatches
Time waits for no man.SNIPES and NLSNIPES Mirror (snipes.exe and nlsnipes.exe)
Written by Shanti A. Braford October 25th, 2007in Linkfest.
Snipes was the first network game I ever played. After school on fridays, Mrs. Kepchar would let us play Snipes and Civilization on the PCs in the computer lab. (networked via Novell Netware)
Via Text Mode Games:
One of the coolest things about text-mode games is the way so many of them are steeped in computing history. It is well known that a number of great software companies—Apogee and Epic Games, to name two—got their start by selling text-mode games. But did you know that the computer industry giant Novell Inc. also began life as an unassuming little text-mode game?
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I’ve mirrored two versions of Snipes below. The first is more of an earlier, single player version. The second can be networked via Novell Netware.
Hat tip, evilzenscientist,
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This game is great. Thanks for providing a mirror of the files. I found them through a netware lite upgrade on a japanese site (nlsnipes is getting harder and harder to find). I wasn’t able to find ncsnipes, but I think nlsnipes is a later version?
I just got nlsnipes.exe working mutiplayer in windows XP. Everyone needs to map a drive to a share that contains nlsnipes.exe, and all load from the same exe on that share.
Excellent retro fun. If you blow up to fullscreen “alt-enter”, it speeds up quite a bit.
Anyone remember (for snipes.exe) the command line switch to get it to play in 80 columns?
Can I play it via internet?
It would be tricky to get working over the internet and may have lag issues.
Like I mentioned before, everyone has to map to the same folder. It is possible to map to an internet share through the ip I would imagine.
\\64.121.33.44\sharename
or something similar.