I just got my network working between my pentium 4 1.8ghz etc, and an old
pentium 1, 133mhz both computers are dual booting between windows
and slackware 10.1
My plan was to hopfully run some older/less resource intensive network games
over the two. after much tinkering, I had legacy doom running a multiplayer game. The only problem is, although the pentium 4 was running smoothly,(big suprise), the older computer was unplayably slow, I would say something like 1 or 2 frames per second. very choppy.

So, any ideas on how to speed doom up a bit?
I'm thinking maybe a different doom engine, any suggestions on one
that would be fast and support multiplayer play?
legacy needs x running to run, so I have to boot up x with fluxbox.
could someone tell me what I would type, or what config files I need to edit
to be able to start up x without a window manager?, maybe that would free
up some resources.
Do I need to try installing an older Linux distro on the old machine? would that
speed things up?
or maybe a dos emulator somehow and the original doom?
or I could even repartition and run freedos in addition to windows and linux, and try it there, but it all seems like alot of work that wouldn't necessarily pan out.
Any suggestions/ideas are appreciated.

or is it just all a lost cause?
I remember doom running very nicely on an old 486 with like 4mb of ram back in the day . . .so I would think this beefed up pentium 1 should be able to do the trick.

at any rate,
the systems specs are as follows:
Pentium I, 133 mhz
48mb ram (I think, may be a little higher)
2gb hdd -- windows 95 partition
6gb hdd -- slackware 10.1
300mb swap

Oh also, I would be really happy to hear any suggestions of other multiplayer network games that are free and would run on a pentium I using linux.

Thanks in advance to anyone who responds to this post.

I would suggest finding drivers for the video card that is in the old box.

I too recall running Doom on fast 486 boxes, should run fine on the 133 box you have, just need the right drivers.

how would i go about doing that? I thought i must already have working video drivers installed since x was running . . . . are there better drivers? What exactly do I need to do.

dude get doomsday, that engine rocks