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From: ngoh@boulder.Colorado.EDU (NGO HIEN D)
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Subject: Re: Playing Populous with IBM's
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Date: 18 Sep 90 06:28:04 GMT
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I have had some success playing Populous between an Amiga 500 and a
286 clone.  We played over two 2400 baud modems and only experienced
the 'incompatible landscape' error a couple of times.  I believe it
occurred most frequently when one player attempted to alter some of the
defaults on the options.

Since both of our modems were Hayes compatible, we simply typed out
the standard ATDT..... to connect to the other player who then just
answered the call with ATA.

One other annoyance was that my friend claimed his 286 to be going slow
in some parts of the game (16 mhz with a fast VGA card), so I don't
know if the complaint was real or just founded in his frustration with
getting demolished....;-)


Hope this helps someone....


Hien Ngo
ngoh@tramp.colorado.edu
ngoh@snoopy.colorado.edu