I know I've tried running a few GoG games on a single processor that was using Windows XP. The game was Soul Reaver, and the audio just was hickuping like crazy. Some games won't work as well as you'd hope, getting them to work sometimes causes bugs in other OS's (although not 'game breaking' it was annoying enough I couldn't play it)

Most of the dos games I have should be fairly easy, and still have a few old disc games also.

Aw man Vista? Sorry, I sadly still have a computer running Vista, which explains why it only boots up once a year it seems. lol. The program I advised will not work on Vista, or anything older. Has to be 7 or newer I think. Yeah I went back and checked my history and saw It was someone else having technical difficulties.

I did do a quick search for something compatible with Vista, and I came up with this....
http://www.askvg.com/wi-host-freeware-to-turn-your-windows-pc-or-laptop-into-wi-fi-host-spot-to-share-internet-connection/

Seems pretty well laid out explaining how to set it up, but I've not used it so I cannot vouch for it. Seems to be mixed comments on the application at the bottom, but the bad ones could be coming from user error also. The download link is about mid ways down the page. It is a .zip file

Thanks man, I will try it out and see what happens. :)

If they have gigabit network hardware in them it's practically a guarantee, but if they have 100Mbit hardware it depends on how old they are and whether they included that functionality or not. No sense buying or making a crosslink cable if it isn't needed though if one has a straight cable to use and it works. :) If I'm not mistaken I believe only one end of the cable needs to autodetect and adjust though, but I'd have to read up on that to be absolutely sure.

I was one of the last holdouts I knew to move away from 10base2... even after I had a modern network I still had one LAN segment running 10base2 off of it to ISA network cards in 486s while everyone made fun of me. :) SInce those days of yore though I've gotten with the program. :)

As I understand it:
Ethernet (cat-5) is made up of 8 wires, 4 of which are grounds. 2 are for data and 2 are for timing. Pairs of the data/timing are put together to make input and output pair. To make a crossover cable you simply have to swap the 4 wires around on one end, if you do both ends you end up with a regular ethernet cable that doesn't follow a specific standard and can't be modified/fixed later easily should they need to do that.

As for your network, let them laugh, you're using hardware that's still good :P I have my ethernet cables duct-taped to the carpet rather than drilling holes in the walls...


I've actually gotten away with making super cheap ethernet cables using phone wire (6 wires) instead of official cat5 (8 wires), but not it's not recommended.

Says "The following command was not found: wlan show hostednetwork"

Some new progress, using my wireless adapters own manager in AP mode. My PS3 can see the network now, but my status for the wireless adapter says limited connectivity.

Any ideas? Think I'm on the right track, but must be some sort of setting I'm missing.

Bump?

Holy shit, just figured it out myself but it was such a derpy solution it's crazy. I had to restart the pc after making the bridge...which vista didn't tell me that I needed to.