Subj : Re: Windows for Workgroups Networking
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Wed Dec 13 2023 13:17:01

  Re: Re: Windows for Workgroups Networking
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Wed Dec 13 2023 09:43 am

 Ni>> For a few years, I had a hand-me-down 386SX-16.  I got it to run

 PF> We used to have DOOM LAN parties in 1994-1995. We'd do a 6 person
 PF> deathmatch over IPX in the office and use a 6-party conference call for
 PF> vox during the game.[1]

 PF> Most of the users at the time had at least a 486SX25, most had full blown
 PF> 486DXes. I saw one of the customer service people playing, and the screen
 PF> size was shrunk down to what seemed like postage-stamp size. I asked him
 PF> why, and he said his computer was too slow. I looked at it and realized he
 PF> had an old 386sx-16 that was lying around when he was hired and they gave
 PF> it to him instead of requesting a new one.

 PF> I got him a decent 486DX system and he proceeded to kick my ass in-game.
 PF> Serves me right.

:)  That's always fun.  In the mid 90s, I had played LAN games with my older brother & a co-worker where they worked a couple times.  I rememebr playing Hexen or Heretic that way once.

There was a BBS user I had around 1995, and we ended up playing Doom over the modem a lot that summer.  I also had to shrink the image size down as small as it would go to make it more playable.  I'm pretty sure that was on my 386SX-16.

In my last post, I forgot I had a 386DX-40 in between my SX-16 and the AMD 5x86-133..  The 386DX-40 was quite an improvement and helped play some games until I bought the 5x86.

Nightfox
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