Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!usenet From: "Particle" Newsgroups: alt.games.quake Subject: Re: Quake via ICQ? Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 15:03:04 -0400 Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 27 Message-ID: <6h0bt2$m5d@news.webspan.net> References: <3533a1fd.0@d2o18.telia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr5-06.bay.ny.webspan.net X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@mail.webspan.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 1998 15:02:58 EDT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Xref: clanworld.com alt.games.quake:27836 One of you should still RUN the quake server... (not "let" ICQ landle it...) The way me and my friend play is one of us sets up the server, and the other one looks at the other's info (to get the IP address), and then we connect... Particle bsptree@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Way/7650 Home of the Java Data Structures Tutorial, Java Binary Space Partition Tree Tutorial, & Dog 3D! >A friend and I have tried several times to initiate a Quake-session via ICQ >since it seems like a really cool way to play: just me and him fragging each >other with one of our computers as server and the other as client. But, >sadly, we have never managed to establish connection. We get as far as to >invite each other, accept the invite, and start the game, but then it seems >as if the client does not find the server. As I understand it, no settings >are required since ICQ should manage that part automatically, but, clearly, >it doesn't. What are we doing wrong? If anyone has succeded in doing this, >please tell me how you did! I will be infinitely grateful! > >Johan. > >