Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 05:42:42 -0800 (PST) From: Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network Gaming - for work!! Message-ID: <20011211134242.27639.qmail@web20608.mail.yahoo.com>
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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 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for > all of > your unique holiday gifts! Buy at > http://shopping.yahoo.com > or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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