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Article #64020Re: 486 DX2 50
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:00
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You need to fix a shank handle in the back of the machine, and wind it as fast as you can when playing James Hollidge <ten.year.old@uk.games.computer.multiplayer> wrote in message news:0DW23.6448$4f.22225@nnrp3.clara.net... > Trust me, multiplayer is much worse on such a system. At best you can hope > for single player performance with some network cards and a lot of memory, > otherwise forget it. > > Take the worst ping, the worst lag and the worst packet loss you've ever > experienced and roll it up into a ball. Now make another ten balls and you > get an idea of had bad it is. > > Well, I lie, it's good if you are playing on a better computer over serial > cable, like my PC. But if you are playing on my old 486 across a serial > cable like I did when my friends came round for a drink then even Thresh > would be caned ;) > > In short, play Doom instead ;-) > > -- > There's a new guy in town, his name's Robocop! > > Command.com > Load BIOS > Ram Check > System Set > > Prime Directives > > 1) Play the public servers > 2) Kill the innocent > 3) Ignore the law > 4) Classified > > And he plays on Wireplay quite a bit. > Challenge him at > Cyb...@freeuk.com > and check out my cool skin. > > Thank you for not spamming. Have a nice day. > > [SoS]SinneR <sw...@clara.net> wrote in message > news:3751230a.5804446@news.clara.net... > > On Wed, 26 May 1999 16:30:27 +1200 the Gods became angry when "Robert" > <wick...@hotmail.com> spake > > thus: > > > > >would quake 1 run on a 486 DX2 50 laptop with 4 mb RAM? > > >multiplayer?? > > > > Doesn't run on my 486 DX6 75 laptop with 8mb RAM.... :( > > Single player that is. Although, I don't see why it should make any > > difference whether it was single or multiplayer.... > > > > -- > > [SoS]SinneR > > > > Contact Info: > > ICQ: 15472677 > > E-mail: sw...@clara.nospam.net > > www: http://www.swbs.clara.net/sos/ > > > > Leader of the clan [SoS] Spawn of Satan. > > To join, please go to: www.swbs.clara.net/sos > > > > User of the KTF Jilted/Julio Swearbox project: > > Download final version at: http://come.to/swearbox/ > > > >
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From: "-0-" <s@s.s> Subject: Re: 486 DX2 50 Date: 1999/05/26 Message-ID: <7ihei7$9rc$1@gxsn.com> X-Deja-AN: 482406658 References: <7iftau$933$1@newsource.ihug.co.nz> <3751230a.5804446@news.clara.net> <0DW23.6448$4f.22225@nnrp3.clara.net> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 X-Complaints-To: ab...@gxsn.com X-Trace: 927743367 1NNUCNF1GA357C393C gxsn.com Organization: GXSN X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Newsgroups: alt.games.quake MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit