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Re: Winmodems

#69005
From: Michael Fincham
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 00:00
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it should be ATZ not AT Z
Briggs, Mike & Donna wrote in message ...
>Johnnnniee ,was there anything special that you had in your modem initz
>string . Right
>now the string on the modem I  am trying to get to work is AT  Z  This is
>the default string that was selected. I know I have my port and Irq
selected
>correctly because the modem is addressed when trying to start up a game.
You
>here the modem fire up to dial the number, but then the process stops and
>the
>number is not dialed. Thanks for the response to my post
>
>Johnnnniee <Johnnnn...@110.net> wrote in message
>news:3822F45C.1B3EBB91@110.net...
>> I had a winmodem and had no problems running a modem game.
>> I did have problems with lag and out of sync errors though
>> I was connecting at 28.8
>> But I was using a 166mhz pentium with 48mb memory
>> I now have a 400mhz pentium 2 with 192mb memory and it runs great
>> I still connect at 28.8 becuase I live in the sticks   but the game runs
>> perfect
>> I think I've gotten 1 out of sync error in 2 or 3 hundred hours of modem
>play
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> "Briggs, Mike & Donna" wrote:
>>
>> > After reading a lot of the post, I think I understand that if you have
a
>> > winmodem in your pc and you are trying to run a Duke3d modem game it
>will
>> > not work.  Please advise me if I understand this correctly. Reply by my
>> > e-mail if you wish and thanks.
>> >
>> > Mike Briggs
>> > E-mail - mbr...@mounet.com
>>
>> --
>> Every day sends future to past
>> Every breathe leaves me one less to my last
>>
>> Johnnnniee Skim
>>
>>
>
>
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From: "Michael Fincham" <maximike@geocities.com.nospam>
Subject: Re: Winmodems
Date: 1999/11/06
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