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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Doom player disadvant
Message-ID: <b7.19136.157.0NB3BC94@swcbbs.com>
From: john.krutke@swcbbs.com (John Krutke)
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 94 00:51:00 -0500
References: <3190pt$k02@drealm.drealm.org>
Distribution: world
Organization: Software Creations BBS
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YO>: When playing network mode.. it seems the person with the faster machine
YO>: gets an advantage.. correct? (i.e faster frame rate, etc..) Or does
YO>: the faster machine slow down to the slower machine's speed to make it
YO>: fair? How about in modem play?
YO>I was playing against a friend who has a 386/20, and I have a 486/66. I
YO>refused to play him again because it slowed down my machine by a very large
YO>amount (-:
I tried modem play with my 486/66 against a 386/25sx and the only time
that my machine even got close to the normal speed was when when he
sized his window down to 2 inches. I must have looked like a green
pixel moving around the screen. This proves that modem play is limited
to the slowest computer.
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