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ew...@hurricane.seas.ucla.edu (Derek L. Ewell) writes:

>I understand that from reading posts in this group and scanning the FAQ that
>DOOM can be played over a network by just loading the IPX and 2 other drivers.
>But I thought I had also read somewhere else that this would only work for 2
>machines connected together via something like thin ethernet.  Is this 
>correct, or can I link together as many as I want using just these drivers and
>ethernet cards and cabling?


>Please reply by email or posting.

Uhhhhhmmmmmm,  What else would we do?  Talking to the screen won't work?
Thinking real hard?  Calling your mom and asking her  to tell you for us?

I just played netddom for the first time last night.  WOW! play in a dark
room next to the guy so you can do things like (Take this!).  The
view other player's view option is incredible!

One thing though, the guys is the MIS IPX god for our company and his
system wouldn't work.  Apparently DOOM pushed his board in a way not
normally pushed and it didn't work.  But switching to a new machine it,
worked fine.  Things we learned:

The socket must be the same between players.  The # of players must be correct.
Pick differnt sockets if it doesn't work.  Switch cards until it does.

Get IPX working first, though all you have to do is type IPX at the prompt
(providing you have IPX).

BTW DOOM on his Dx33 with Local Bus Video was incredible.  And he thought he
had tweaked his 386dx enough (it can be done, become a cmos god), now I
spoiled him....

-- 
Later, ZOT                                            z...@crl.com
Osborn's Law:
	Variables won't; constants aren't.