Null Modem Quake (Please help me)
Troy Whittaker
Any advice is appreciated :)
I am trying to connect my two machines with a null modem cable (yes I
have the nm adapter) It's a 3ft serial w/ the adapter. I have it on
Com2 (9pin) on my pentium, and com2 (25pin) on my 486. I can connect on
many other games and programs, including doom, and it works in both
win95 and Dos. Both machines are running Windows 95 and are set up very
similar. In quake I set up the pentium as the host and it goes fine.
When I set up the 486 to join game on direct connect, it tries to
connect. Sometimes it will actually say "Connection Accepted", and
sometimes it will say "No response" IN ALL CASES WHEN TRYING TO LINK,
it says "Host_Error: cl_parseservermessage:
Illegible server message.
Any thoughts? If you know the answer, or know of a resource on the
internet for null modem connections in quake, please post and email me
if possible. (NG's are screwy this week)
Thanks in advance,
Troy Whittaker
TWhit...@bellsouth.net
Lj
Are you running the same versions of Quake on each one? I seem to remember
if you have v1.06 running, v1.07 will return this error when trying to
connect. There is a patch that fixes it, but the easy way is to make both
the same version. Hope this helps!
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Troy Whittaker <TWhit...@bellsouth.net> wrote in article
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Tim Smith
Well, for one thing Quake will NOT run on a 486, at all. If you upgrade it
to a Pentium Overdrive the performance will be pretty good.
Serial cable quake sucks badly no matter what the machine. Never do it that
way. The thing to do is buy 2 ethernet adapters and several feet of cable
to set up a small LAN; then you will have pings of 20-30, great multiplayer
games, etc. Plus you can do wonders in win95 with a small network (backups,
instant file transfer, etc) The total cost should be less than $100. I have
a 3-pentium network at home, and believe me, it is WAY better than serial
cable play... ..for anything.
If you have any ?'s then e-mail me: jsmith...@klondyke.net , just
remove the nospam.
Tim Smith
Adam Williamson
On 28 Jun 1997 20:21:18 GMT, "Tim Smith" <jsmith...@klondyke.net>
wrote:
>Well, for one thing Quake will NOT run on a 486, at all. If you upgrade it
Uh, yes it will. I've had Quake running on a DX33, a DX2/66, and this
5x86/133 (486 class chip).
>a 3-pentium network at home, and believe me, it is WAY better than serial
>cable play... ..for anything.
I have much the same setup as you (IPX linked 5x86/133 and P120), but
for Doom and Duke3D a serial cable gives identical performance to a
network. So you're not quite right :)
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