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From:Paul Hill
Date:7 Aug 2000 at 09:45:35
Subject:Re: Networked Doom with Windows NT opponent?

Tyler Saxton wrote:
>
> Hi. My new employer just gave me a Windows NT laptop, and I'm looking to
> slaughter all my housemates -- in Doom of course, I can't pay all the rent
> by myself! :-)
>
> So, I'm wondering if anyone can tell me which versions of the Doom engine
> for the (PPC) Amiga and the Windows NT machine I should be using, so that
> they will talk to each other over ethernet? I've got the TCP/IP
> connection between machines going -- I'm just not sure how I can start up
> a network game.

I think both ADoom and DoomAttack support TCP/IP (dunno about PPC versions
though).

On a similar note does anyone know if it's possible to link up any Amiga Doom
engine to a DOS version via a serial cable? It seems the Amiga versions use
an incompatible protocol to the DOS versions. Other than doing a bit of
programming the only way I can think of is setting up a TCP/IP link over
serial, which is probably a bit too demanding for my old 8Mb 486 laptop.



Paul

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