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Re: Growing Older

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From: Raymond Martineau
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 04:40
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 00:07:34 GMT, "Doug Cook" <dcook@concentric.net>
wrote:

>I had the resolution too high and I didn't see the frame rate.  I found an
>app called IC Commit for connecting Duke over the internet.  The launcher I
>was thinking about was called Duke Manager 4.0 by Charlie Wilson who at the
>time was at portal.com.  This launcher is neat, it launches single and
>multiplayer, and interfaces directly with IC Commit.  The readme says the
>version I have is shareware and that's why some of the menu items don't
>work, but it said nothing about registering it.  I sent an email to
>Charlie's old address, but I haven't recieved anything back.  If he's not
>around, can anyone else make it work? 

IC Commit is no longer maintained.  It's either a success or failure
with this product, and there doesn't seem to be any way to register.

> BTW,  I installed JonoF's port, and
>Duke's running great on my XP machine.  Thanks for the suggestion.  I still
>want to make the old DOS computer work though.

It's a bit difficult, but you can take a look at possible clients:
http://rtcm.thecomitatus.com/knowledge-base/documents-online/setup-game-connection.html
A few options on these pages may work, and are supported, but expect
some connection problems as well (Duke3D is known to Desync even on a
local network.)
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Subject: Re: Growing Older
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