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So, I played plenty of LANs back in the day, and spent some time with the reaperbot, but here in rural Wales we only just got broadband. No, really.
I've been trying to get into some Quake 1 online and been getting very confused. I can see a bunch of Quake servers here, and tracked down QWCL 2.33... it works ok, but nobody is ever on the UK ones, and the ping is something like 180 usually on the American/Russian ones, and I get packet losses all over the place. So I got All-Seeing Eye, and it finds a few people in the UK, but whenever I connect I have 000 health and can't seem to play? They're not exactly chatty, either, which I can kind of understand, they just want to play their games.
So I downloaded ezquake, and had a go at tackling its mammoth help files, which straightened a few things out, but it's a lot of information to digest. I then got Qizmo, but I guess I still don't understand what the hell Qizmo really is or how to use it. When I load it up (command line "c:\quake\qizmo\qizmo -p 27501 c:\quake\qwcl -nosound", and that's correct for the filenames) I set everything up (what game type I want, etc) set it to search, and it never finds any servers.
At this stage I'm damn near giving up. How much more arcane information am I going to have to go through? I'm sure it's easy once you've got the hang of all the commands and whatever, but I just want to play a casual network game of Quake with a reasonable ping.
I've been trying to get into some Quake 1 online and been getting very confused. I can see a bunch of Quake servers here, and tracked down QWCL 2.33... it works ok, but nobody is ever on the UK ones, and the ping is something like 180 usually on the American/Russian ones, and I get packet losses all over the place. So I got All-Seeing Eye, and it finds a few people in the UK, but whenever I connect I have 000 health and can't seem to play? They're not exactly chatty, either, which I can kind of understand, they just want to play their games.
So I downloaded ezquake, and had a go at tackling its mammoth help files, which straightened a few things out, but it's a lot of information to digest. I then got Qizmo, but I guess I still don't understand what the hell Qizmo really is or how to use it. When I load it up (command line "c:\quake\qizmo\qizmo -p 27501 c:\quake\qwcl -nosound", and that's correct for the filenames) I set everything up (what game type I want, etc) set it to search, and it never finds any servers.
At this stage I'm damn near giving up. How much more arcane information am I going to have to go through? I'm sure it's easy once you've got the hang of all the commands and whatever, but I just want to play a casual network game of Quake with a reasonable ping.
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