The freeciv server runs on the VAX? kick ass! 
freeciv was finally a decent civ after all the lame mps versions that 
followed the wonderful original dos game.. (i still remember numerous 
important offsets in the savegame file from the dos version ;)
i'll have to try and compile it on my 4k60 now... :)

isildur

On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, John wrote:

> > What other sorts of uses could we drum up for olden VAXentoyz?
> 
> Mine is running Apache, sendmail, and procmail (acting as a backup mail
> server for my colocated server), BIND doing secondary DNS, and so forth.
> I've also installed the FreeCiv server on it for my FreeCiv playing users.
> 
> The desire for a dnet client comes from the fact that even when my
> colocated Amiga server is heavily used (15 users at a time, 1+ gig of web
> traffic per day, lots of anonymous ftp, users using napster...), the dnet
> client still runs at 5/6 of the speed of an idle machine.
> 
> THe VAX, even if I load it up with work, will STILL be idle more than 50%
> of the time.
> 
> I've looked over all of the projects on mersienne.org, and most offer
> Windows only clients, Linux binaries (therefore, x86), or some
> combination. They seem to think they're appealing to non-mainstream by
> offering Mac clients.
> 
> There was a thread on this list a while ago about dnet clients for VAX; I
> am interested in looking at writing the assembly part of the client for
> VAX processors, and maybe with the help of John Girvin (the one who did
> the optimised m68k dnet clients and Ignatios (who also did some optimised
> clients), a reasonably fast client might be built.
> 
> Just for notes, a 40 MHz 68040 does an average sized OGR node in about
> four days. Many VAX will probably take a week or two to do one node, but
> the check-in time for distributed.net will allow this.
> 
> So who has some good links and info on VAX assembly?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Klos
> 
>