Re: Doom on Network Help Wanted

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From: Rajesh Varia
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 00:00

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In article <Pine.A32.3.91.950922...@spider.usp.br>
           jpm...@usp.br "Juliano Pratti Mercantil" writes:

> On 21 Sep 1995, Nicholas Wilson - ACPS/W94 wrote:
> 
> > Quick question, as this has probably been answered before. I have two 
> > computers .. networked together ... Each of these computers has it's own 
> > 28.8 modem ... I am wondering (can you guess already) if it is possible 
> > to run a networked version and modem Doom or Doom2 at the same time .. 
> > ie: 4 players .. 2 dialin and two networked.. or even 1 dialin and two 
> > networked.. it's probably possible, yet i am not sure how to procede .. 
> > or with even what software to try and use (ie: should I set up a BBS or 
> > what?)... Any help would be appreciated .. However, due to the size of 
> > the news groups I would prefer that you email me any suggestions that you 
> > might have to the above address.. Thx for your help ..
> > 
> 
> 
>   Do you want to run 2 DOOM copies, with 2 players in each machine? How?
> 
>                         |                   Juliano Pratti Mercantil | 
>                         |                              jpm...@usp.br |
> 
There is a driver which makes a modem connection appear as a IPX
session.  This allows 4 player via a BBS frontdoor.  Don't know if 
this can be mixed with local network nodes.

As to the question of newsgroup size, is you news reader that you
cannot scan through the group and search on keywords in the
headers eg Doom (let alone search in the body of articles, in which 
case try searching on you name).

Rajesh Varia     r...@c4rv.demon.co.uk

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