From:	Ronald Landheer <ronald DOT landheer AT libertysurf DOT fr>
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Subject:	Re: how did Quake do it???
Date:	Wed, 31 Jan 2001 23:00:32 -0100
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Sahab Yazdani schreef:
> okay, I'm wondering, how did the original Quake manage to make
> networking under DOS work???  i know it opened up some kind of portal
> into Windows and then used that as its transport, but HOW???? anybody
> know, care to tell the rest of us????
I have the source code for Quake 2 if you want it.. I can ask a friend
of mine for the code of Quake 1 - if he hasn't thrown it away yet (he
offered me a copy, I subsequently trashed it because I wasn't going to
use it anyway). I really don't remember how they did the networking, but
I assume they just included some drivers for some std cards and did it
directly.
Perhaps you should mail the people at iD soft - they've been pretty
forthcoming about this..

I'll mail the friends - see if he has the code. If he does, I'll get a
copy from him and if you want it (tell me) send it to you.

Greetz!

Ronald

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