Unix and doom

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2 total messages Started by ava... Richard Weber Fri, 21 Jan 1994 18:03

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Author: ava... Richard Weber
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 18:03

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Ok, I love doom,(or at least the demo, I hope to get the full fledged 
version very very soon) and I was wondering, hearing about the Networking 
capabilities of this game, Is it possible to play doom over Unix?  I 
tried using SoftPC(Big joke) but it only gave me 640k to use.  Any ideas 
how to do it?  Please post any solutions or mail them to me, thanks.

Richard

ava...@esu.edu

Re: Unix and doom

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Author: uch... Mike Uchima
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 21:15

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In article <2hp5dv$9...@jake.esu.edu>, ava...@esu.edu (Richard Weber) writes:
|> Ok, I love doom,(or at least the demo, I hope to get the full fledged 
|> version very very soon) and I was wondering, hearing about the Networking 
|> capabilities of this game, Is it possible to play doom over Unix?  I 
|> tried using SoftPC(Big joke) but it only gave me 640k to use.  Any ideas 
|> how to do it?  Please post any solutions or mail them to me, thanks.
|> 
|> Richard
|> 
|> ava...@esu.edu

I seriously doubt that there will be a product anytime soon (maybe
never) that provides both a faithful enough PC emulation to support 
the DOS extender used by DOOM, while also providing adequate 
performance. Technically, this is nearly impossible to do without
putting an actual 486 and VGA adapter inside your UNIX workstation...

-- Mike Uchima
-- uch...@fnal.fnal.gov

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