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Dean_R...@oti.com (Dean Roberts) wrote:

: I was just wondering if anybody out there has tried to use an internet
: phone type product and Diablo on battlenet at the same time.  The
: point?  To be able to talk to the people you are playing with.

: I suspect that the requirements on the CPU would be too hight but I
: can't try this myself since I only have a half duplex sound card and a
: 14.4 modem.  To have a hope of working you would want a full duplex
: sound card and a 28.8 modem.

I don't think it's so much a question of requirements on the CPU being
too high as it is the limited bandwidth being used up.  Diablo
requires a 28.8 minimum to play over battle.net, and even that gets
slowed down to the point where the other players and monsters are too
jumpy with four players.  I don't see why it wouldn't work, except
maybe Win95's pathetic handling of multitasking might not let you do
it, but you'd need at least a 64k ISDN.

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