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Re: Internet Phone and Battlenet

#1980
From: Marcus Trisdale
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 00:00
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When Diablo's sound is on, all other Win95 sound ceases to function on my
computer.  Is this with anyone else??  If so, then I would say you could
not do chat or iphone with Diablo running!

-Marcus Trisdale

WilyKit (Benjamin Black) <cali...@cloud9.net~remove_me~> wrote in article
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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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> WilyKit    (Benjamin Black)
> e-mail: cali...@cloud9.net
> http://cloud9.net/~caligula
> 
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From: "Marcus Trisdale" <tr...@peak.org>
Subject: Re: Internet Phone and Battlenet
Date: 1997/03/07
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