MDG / ipcs on the on the 3b1

[David P Cutter]

>From article <1991Feb28.182152.11622 at cbnews.att.com>, by tjl at cbnews.att.com (timothy.j.lipetz):
> 
> I have questions about shared memory and ipc messages on
> the 3b1 and also about the multi player dungeon game MDG.
> ...(stuff deleted)
>
> MY QUESTIONS...
> 
> How many message headers does 3.51m have?  How do I check
> that?
I have no clue.

> 
> I tried running ipcs, but all it ever said was 'no memory file'
> whatever that means.  How can I get it to work?
I never have seen this?  Maybe the permssions on the 'ipcs' executable
are wrong.  When I bought my 3b1 the "ipc's" weren't being loaded upon
bootting.  Try '/etc/lddrv/lddrv -s' , I think this shows the drivers
that are loaded - I don't think this is your problem though :).

> 
> I tried running mapmem (from the net) to look at shared memory.
> How does mapmem indicate a shared memory block?
> 
> Finally, has anyone gotten MDG to work well on the 3b1?
> Should I recompile it with the 3 player max limit?
I got it to compile and run.  I set the max player limit to 3 mainly
because I'll never have more than 3 users on my system anyway.  I
haven't tried playing with two players yet.  I did notice that one
player was SLOW.  I was thinking of slowing down the "clock daemon".
Let me know what happens.

Dave Cutter
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