Thus spake Ian Melnick: > Hello, all > > For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an > ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older > libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I > could use dosemu; as people say doom runs in it, but I've had no luck; > it seems to halt before completely loading. > Is there any hope? 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 - 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. -- Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net> Now is the Windows of our disk contents
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