Re: Release Date?? Server Power?? Quaketalk??

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From: bh... Arthur Sankey
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 00:00

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 (rob...@acsu.buffalo.edu) writes:
> Could someone help me with a few questions.  What is the approx. new 
> release date of Quake?? 

Next Christmas? Nobody knows for sure, but I keep hearing rumours about it
being shipped around April. Wishful thinking maybe.

> How much server power will I need just to play two 
> people by modem?? 

Same as doom, I think.

> What will be nessecary to play large quake games over 
> internet servers?? (i.e. Modem speed?, ISDN?) 

Gee, I've been hearing that the minumum (Around 14000) will make things
jerky in big net games, therefore making you easy meat. Id has said that
one slow guy won't slow down everyone else.

> And lastly, how do I know 
> what the lastest version of quaketalk is and when mine becomes outdated?

Quaketalk is always outdated. It's just like that. :)

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Date: 1996/01/08
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