how comfortable it is...

[lionstorm]

to play doom or quake between 2 amigas through serial or parallele port ?
Lio

[Elektro]

Your ass may hurt after a couple of hours.

 :-D

[rhino]

Most modern games use TCP/IP networking rather than a direct serial or parallel connection. This means you'll need a TCP/IP stack (Miami, Genesis etc.) on each machine and a PPP or SLIP connection over the serial port. There is also a SANA 2 driver (PLIP) for TCP/IP networking over a parallel cable but I've never tried it.

After you've got that setup then any game that uses TCP/IP should work well. You might find that performance is limited by the speed of the serial port and the fact that at higher transfer rates it uses a lot of CPU time. A fast serial port add-on could help there but if you're going to spend money it's worth considering an Ethernet setup.

Robert

[lionstorm]

thanks.
I dont want to spend more for my classic amigas, I already bought a faster serial/parallele port (VarIO) for the towerized one.
Lio

[Warface]

Well, not Lan, but I tried out both via Internet and an 56K modem.

Quake has a pretty old and inefficient multiplayer solution, which makes it very dependant on the player's connection speed. (the faster connection usually wins) QuakeWorld has a much more advanced networking, yet a considerable difference in connection speed still can be lethal. (Try the TC MOD Chapter Honour tho, that has a very fair multiplayer, where connection speed is not as dependant)

As to doom: that was very very primitive, even comparing with Q1. It requires a huge bandwidth and was almost unplayable.

That's all I can tell :-)