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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.

How could I go about playing Doom across internet between two PC's, each
with their own IP address??


-- 
Another Mindless sig:

"If you think health care costs too much now, wait until you see how much 
it costs when it's free."  P.J. O'Rourke.

Yeah, from what I understand, many of the ethernet cards come with their own IPX
drivers.  You really don't need a full blown NOS to have doom up and running for
network play...

Al

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

the following is a batch file that loads up all of the drivers that you need
to run NETDOOM on a thin ethernet network which uses NETBIOS instead of
Novell.  The problem that you'll run into is that you have to find a Novell
driver for your card first off. I have 2 Artisoft AE-2 cards that use
NETBIOS and I had hell figuring out what I even needed.

Anyhow, most cards (especially anything NE2000 compatible) have drivers out
there that will work. Mine came from some 'fsp' site (a friend of mine
snagged them for me) and were put together by Crynwyr Software. (they write
a lot of network drivers).

here it is:

@echo off
nwlanguage=english
lsl
ne2000 0x60 15 0x360    (int_vector_#, irq#, card_iobase_address)
pdether
ipxodi
setup


the only one that will change for you is the NE2000.com driver, replace that
with the ipx driver for your particular card. (the ipx driver is the novell
driver.


Note for all lantastic/lan server users, if you want to play net doom now,
this will work for you, but you have to boot without any of your normal
network drivers installed...these are Novell drivers and will conflict with
your network drivers and will lock up your machine.


If i can ever get onto ftp.uwp.edu to d/l the new patch for DOOM, i'll
upload all of the above drivers and a read.me file with it.

				Rich/Hotblack

In article <CJozG...@rci.ripco.com>, hotb...@rci.ripco.com (Hotblack
Desiato) wrote:

> Derek L. Ewell (ew...@hurricane.seas.ucla.edu) wrote: 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.
 Anyhow, most cards (especially anything NE2000 compatible) have drivers
out
> there that will work. Mine came from some 'fsp' site (a friend of mine
> snagged them for me) and were put together by Crynwyr Software. (they write
> a lot of network drivers).
> 
> here it is:
> 
> @echo off
> nwlanguage=english
> lsl
> ne2000 0x60 15 0x360    (int_vector_#, irq#, card_iobase_address)
> pdether
> ipxodi
> setup

Hmmm- I futzed around a LOT trying to get netdoom to work with my NE-2000
clone
ethernet cards.  I DON'T have Novell, I use Little Big Lan, so all these
helpful tips with respect to Novell/Netbios, etc. did me no good.  Here is
how I was able to make it work, using only freely available software:

ne2000 -n 0x60 15 0x300	(Crynwyr [aka Clarkson] Packet Driver]
ipx  (From the ipx92.zip)

I have NOT been able to get the suggested pdether (PDIPX103.ZIP) to work,
no matter what combination of -n or -i switches I used.