From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 5:11:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rambo.simx.org (rambo.simx.org [194.17.208.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF32B37B41B for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:11:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from rambo.simx.org (johndoe@rocky [192.168.0.2]) by rambo.simx.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBBDBlC80800; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:11:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from listsub@rambo.simx.org) Message-ID: <3C1606CE.7090109@rambo.simx.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:14:54 +0100 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" Reply-To: listsub@rambo.simx.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Kenny Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network Gaming - for work!! References: <20011211105204.11494.qmail@web20002.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Im not a hardcore gamer myself, but I've seen people use Unreal Tournament, Quake III and Counterstrike on bsd. I think some of the games may even be found in the ports tree. I suppose this is just the servers for the games, since providing the full versions of the games in ports surely would break a lot of licenses. -- R Gavin Kenny 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 > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message