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Re: DESCENT Multiplayer *across* routers

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From: j... John S. Price
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 03:15
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In article <PETE.95Fe...@silver.sms.fi> pe...@silver.sms.fi (Petri Helenius) writes:
>It seems that they do not give a heck about the network number.
>(I found this out about a month ago and have reported this twice to
> Interplay with no reply this far.)

You probably didn't get a reply since the fact that Descent won't run
across a router is documented in the README.TXT file that comes with
Descent.  I quote from section 3c in README.TXT:

"Shareware Descent requires that network players all be connected to the
 same local network so their packets can be routed directly without
 intermediate processing by routers.  The Registered/Commercial version
 of Descent will support routing through network servers."

So, it shouldn't be surprising that you didn't get an answer; you had your
answer in the documentation, and, due to other more pressing matters to
fix/reply to, your message was probably put on a very low priority for
response.

>Pete

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Subject: Re: DESCENT Multiplayer *across* routers
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