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1. Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 11:52:20 EST Christopher M. Hobbs
   Tried so hard to get freedm with prboom-plus and prboom-plus-game-server to work with my son. Something is way off because as soon as he picks up an item, the game server crashes. I suspect there's a version mismatch somewhere as my levels/…
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 12:06:29 EST Christopher M. Hobbs

     • ektoplazm
     My poor little netbook probably wouldn't run those!
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 12:07:04 EST Christopher M. Hobbs

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     Great success! Turns out our WAD files were different. Downloaded the latest WADs from the #freedoom project and we're all set! FreeDOOM deathmatch with the boy!
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 12:16:04 EST Christopher M. Hobbs

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     For the curious, `prboom-plus-game-server -w freedm.wad -a` will set up a game server listening on port 5030 with the "Deathmatch 2.0" style game. Connect to it with `prboom-plus -iwad freedm.wad -net servername`
   • Windigo ☴ (windigo)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 12:41:28 EST Windigo ☴

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     @cmhobbs This is how geeks get interested in fatherhood, isn't it. :D
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 13:02:04 EST Christopher M. Hobbs

     • Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann
     FreeDOOM is a great place to start!
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 13:02:39 EST Christopher M. Hobbs

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     • Windigo ☴
     Very likely!
   • Christopher M. Hobbs (cmhobbs)'s status on Sunday, 01-Nov-2015 14:23:31 EST Christopher M. Hobbs

     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 no crashes at all, we played for about two hours both death match and coop. It came down to matching prboom-plus and prboom-plus-game-server versions and matching WAD files. Note that the server exits after the players do and onl…