[Wolves] Games this Wednesday

Aquarius wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Feb 13 16:11:01 2003


Matt Warwick spoo'd forth:
> 
>>We discovered a couple of things: first, that a cablemodem connection
>>doesn't seem to be able to support 4 simultaneous players on prboom.
> 
> Really?
> 
> I think that really shows the age of the networking protocol of Doom,

As Peter says, I suspect that the networking in prboom is a bag hung on
the side of the original single-player game. More modern games were
designed with the network and multiplayer in mind, and therefore are
less network-intensive.

Aq.

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