Gamespy (unregistered) and AOL?

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From: The... Todd
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 05:18

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I wanted to play a game of quake2 with my nephew (I'm in central Cal
using a local ISP and he's in Oregon using AOL).  We both have slow
connections.

We couldn't play with one of us acting as the server, because the ping
was too big.  Yesterday, I decided to try Gamespy, the version that
came with the Quake2 netpack, and got a good list.  So i logged onto a
system and immeadiately got fragged.

Anyway, I tried to walk my nephew through the stages, but he couldn't
get the list.  I checked the Gamespy FAQ, and it mentions problems
with incompatibilities with some winsocks.  Is there a problem with
Gamespy and AOL that keeps him from getting a server list?

Or did his install go bad, or did I maybe delete something when I did
the install months ago?



Todd
tod...@stopspam.net
actually, it's inreach

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