Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Tracker1
Date : Sat Jul 30 2005 04:34 pm

ROB MCCART wrote:
>> In that case, an old win98/dos system may be the best bet.. *shrug* haven't
>> tried to use dialup for gaming in a l-o-n-g time...
> 
> That's what I'm using..  Well, the Win 98/dos part anyways..
> On a Pentium IV 3GHz. The old doom works fine from there in a
> DOS Windows, can even use the onboard sound and (part hardware)
> WinModem, but none of the new distros seem able to to handle it,
> nor do they have the option of modem to modem dialing..
> 
> I primarily run Win 98 because of reports that Doom won't
> work well (crawls) in Win XP Dos type mode due to a lack
> of resources.

XP-DOS is an emulated environment, and doesn't perform well at all, you
might actually have decent luck with DOSBOX under XP for what you are wanting 
to do.. I'm using a p4 in HT mode (if you dissable HT for when you run dosbox, 
should perform well enough) ... it doesn't quite run duke nukem 3d well 
enough, but doom/doom2 should run fine under it.. and should give you access 
to the modem afaik.. will have to check on your dosbox.conf settings to see if 
you can set your real modem to the com1/com2 in dosbox.

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