From: Tom St Denis <stdenis AT compmore DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: how did Quake do it???
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:34:49 GMT
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In article <3A7876BC DOT 2060603 AT operamail DOT com>,
  Sahab Yazdani <sahaby AT operamail DOT com> wrote:
> 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????

No they didn't.

Only winquake supports TCP/IP games.

Tom


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