On Dec 26, 1993 at 22:47, Dieter Mirbach of 3:711/934 wrote:

 DB>> I checked again today - no sign of null-modem or modem support yet! 
 DM>  
 DM> It would be interesting to see what sort of response times they 
 DM> get from the remote version.

I've been told as long as you use 9600bps or faster, it's quite fine;  if
it's anything like the IPX version, then it'll be useless (I mean IPX over
serial lines, that is).

 DM> As they say in the Readme file, it needs a 486 to run properly. It really
 DM> sux on the 386SX.

I've played it on an i386SL-25, and while not brilliant, it was quite
playable.  DOOM was pretty much "there" on a 386DX-40.  Plays
great on this i486DX-33, though.  ;-)

 DM> Guess what I want for Xmas. ? :-)

*sigh* While waiting for the initial release, some guy over in the States
announced he had just received an early Christmas present - a Pentium-66.


    - dave
    david{at}harpo.nepean.uws.edu.au

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