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From: Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com>
Subject:  Re: Network Gaming - for work!!
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--- Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:41:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Network Gaming - for work!!
> To: Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk>
> 
> 
> --- Gavin Kenny <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > well it must be Christmas. I'm performing a study
> > that
> > looks into the use of Satcoms for broadband access
> > and
> > in a meeting it was stated that Gaming wouldn't
> work
> > because of the link latency.
> > 
> > I've got a Satellite link emulator (running on
> FBSD)
> > and I've been asked to check it out.
> > 
> > So basically I've got to play some network games
> and
> > see what happens ;-)
> > 
> > I'm not a gamer (apart from a bit of Doom or
> > Heretic)
> > so my question. What games are there that run on
> > FreeBSD that allow multiple participants to
> interact
> > etc over a network? Can I set up Heretic for
> > multiple
> > people? If so, how? Does it all sit on a central
> > server?
> > 
> > many thanks
> > 
> > Gavin
> > 
> 
> 
> I ran a Quake3 ( Urban Terror Modification ) server
> in
> freebsd 4.4 with the linux compatibility binaries. 
> I
> think it would be a great test.  :)  You can edit
> the
> config files for Urban Terror to set the rates for
> which users transfer data and you can change the
> number of clients on the server, etc.
> 
> I am not sure if the Urban terror modification is
> actually playable on FreeBSD, but I do know that the
> server works fine.
> 
> Check out www.urbanterror.net for more info on the
> game.  Also, to buy quake3 it is very inexpensive, I
> believe I bought mine for only $20.00 at CompUSA.
> 
> Good luck, enjoy.
> 
> -Donnie
> 
> 
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