Right: Chocolate Doom
Left: DOS vanilla Doom running in DOSbox w/ipxsetup.exe
#mastodoom
2006 me ... what were you thinking when you did this? Why did you think this was a good idea? Just ... why?
https://github.com/chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom/commit/ce765250b6265bba27174a2339fd14cea2bb0925
Anyway this works now and here's a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs5tGIVV5ms
Now works for sersetup.exe and DOSBox's emulated modem:
Chocolate vs. Vanilla now working for Heretic. There are some subtle protocol differences with the vanilla Doom/Heretic/Hexen/Strife protocols, mainly because they have extra ticcmd fields
I would probably change a lot about Chocolate Doom's netcode if I was to start again nowadays. I let my hair down when I wrote it and mostly did it for the fun of writing netcode. It jars a bit with the project philosophy
Chocolate Hexen vs. Vanilla
The vanilla Hexen protocol has some additional stuff in there to sync the player class between nodes. From a distributed systems perspective it doesn't seem particularly well thought through, but it is what it is.
And just out of pure morbid curiosity since Hexen supports 8 players
@fraggle Oh cool! That must have had some crowded games lol!
