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Nope, never tried it.

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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On 6 Mar 1997 02:56:37 GMT, "Thomas Meissner" <TMei...@acm.org>
wrote:


>Actually, the modem SPEED does not matter (much).  I play with no problems
>with a 14.4 modem all the time.  The issue is LATENCY.  Your ISP needs to
>have decent response times, and your computer needs to be able to keep up. 
>I have played three player multi-player with no lag while downloading files
>from ftp sites, all on my ancient 14.4 modem.  My computer, unlike my
>modem, is quite speedy (SCSI-based P133 w/ 48 MB RAM), so it keeps up just
>fine.
>
>All this does not mean that the internet phone stuff would work, however. 
>I suspect that Benjamin's comments related to the bandwidth required for
>the internet phone would still apply.


Just to add in, I do not think you can use Internet Phone and play
Diablo at the same time. This is because both programs will be
requesting services from the sound card. This is unless you have 2
sound cards. Not very sure on this though. Haven't tried it b4. Maybe
someone can comment?
                           
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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
<5fi09i$b...@news.cloud9.net>...
> 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.
> 
> ___________________________                                  
> Z o m b i e C h i l d r e n
> WilyKit    (Benjamin Black)
> e-mail: cali...@cloud9.net
> http://cloud9.net/~caligula
> 
> 

Marcus Trisdale wrote:
> 
> 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
> <5fi09i$b...@news.cloud9.net>...
> > 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.
> >
> > ___________________________
> > Z o m b i e C h i l d r e n
> > WilyKit    (Benjamin Black)
> > e-mail: cali...@cloud9.net
> > http://cloud9.net/~caligula
> >
> >
>From what I've seen, every Win95 game (when running) blocks other
programs from using sound.  Even system sounds.  This is probably due to
DirectSound and the way it interacts with the PC hardware.