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Re: Winmodems

#69006
From: Briggs Mike Donna
Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 00:00
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Thanks Michael, I will give this a try and see how it goes. Will post
results.
Michael Fincham <maximike@geocities.com.nospam> wrote in message
news:800m7e$ah8j2$1@titan.xtra.co.nz...
> 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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Subject: Re: Winmodems
Date: 1999/11/06
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