Re: Games thru SSH

[Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>]

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:55:44PM -0500, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Not really.  Not if you're actually thinking that you can *play quake*
> over an ssh session.  On a local lan, you *might* be able to do it (with
> a very low framerate), but there's no way you're going to be able to:
> - shove 30fps or so across an ssh connection

Looking at about 5FPS over an X connection on a 100Mbps LAN from what
I've tried with an X terminal.

> - do any sort of serious graphics over the connection
> You might be able to get away with a very-very low framerate
> aalib-rendered game, but that's about all I can think of.

Actually, Quake becomes quite playable with aalib over the network.
If you consider aalib playable to start with.

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