Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : Tracker1
From : Large
Date : Sun Jul 31 2005 07:56 am

  Re: Re: About To Blow A Gaske
  By: Tracker1 to ROB MCCART on Sat Jul 30 2005 05:34 pm

 > ROB MCCART wrote:
 > >> In that case, an old win98/dos system may be the best bet.. *shrug* haven
 > >> 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 wantin
 > to do.. I'm using a p4 in HT mode (if you dissable HT for when you run dosbo
 > 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 
 > you can set your real modem to the com1/com2 in dosbox.
 > 
 > --
 > Michael J. Ryan - tracker1(at)theroughnecks(dot)net - www.theroughnecks.net
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 > 

Could try VMWARE?

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