nc_ds
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> playing original doom in net play is about
> impossible.
Actually it works quite well. I play DooM2 v1.9
on the 'net on a regular basis, more precisely
at http://zone.msn.com/zonelan. I'm
lucky enough to get playable pings to some of
the very best deathmatchers in the world. Playing
on the Zone with pings as low as say 45 ms is
great. These games actually work better than
the typical sersetup modem game, and about just
as well as the typical serial cable (null-modem)
game. Of course, playing on a fast ethernet LAN
would be even better, but this definitely is the
next best thing.
I was playing DooM on the 'net already back in
1994, by the way, using some funny piece of Unix
software called IHHD (Internet Head-to-Head
Daemon?). Those games were dead laggy, though,
as I was using a 14.4k SupraFAXModem at the time.
> the only way it can be done is a 4 person
> LAN party.
Why specifically 4 persons?-) We were 13 doomers
in Stavanger in July, all hooked up to the same
LAN. It was great fun.
> well u can call someone and play that way,
> but u need a old ass modem (or full hardware
> modem compadible with an old ass modem)
Yes, you do need a real modem to be able
to play original DooM, using sersetup or some
compatible serial driver.
> I have never had any sucess playing a net game
> with original doom
Well, let's hope you will, sometime soon...
N.C.
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10-20-01 19:52
