Dial-tone question...

[turtlepower_1986]

Using a custom dreamcast browser CD, I can get online and can hit google.com no problem. Using the dreamcast browser cd 1.0, I can get connected my dialup connection.

My settings are blind dialing set to YES.
I'm using a home built voltage line inducer.
I don't think it's really part of the problem considering how I can actually get to google with the custom browser, but I'm using a physical pentium 3 dell with win98 installed. I'm pretty sure it's a win modem, but not entirely sure on that. The fact that I could get connected and get to google made me not really worry about that.

My problem is quake 3 just won't even try to connect to my ISP settings because of 'no dial tone'. PSO can get connected but errors out before I can hit a server. I suspect that is because I'm just getting into the private server stuff and probably need a specific DNS server to connect to one of those. Quake 3 though, it just won't even connect to get the no master server error. Anybody know if NTSC dreamcast modem is hella picky about the voltage it looks for??? I know I could do a Pi, and/or a VM, but I'm kind of a retro computer person too, so that's why I chose this path. Thanks in advance.

[Scrivani]

Dial tone generation is what you will need at the moment and you won't have it without an extra feature if you are using the classic PC-DC system for Windows 98.

Below is a suggestion for a dial tone generator, in addition to this you will need an RJ11 hub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xjyvDUtuLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUNdyyQy950
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186494157352
https://www.ebay.com/itm/186491965475

[Scrivani]

Most games don't support blind dial.

[turtlepower_1986]

Thank you for your reply. I eventually did more research and discovered that Quake 3 doesn't do blind dialing. I appreciate you giving the suggestions for tricking the DC with a dial tone!