Saitek III - Manual (Page 37)

To chat before you begin a game, double-click the name of one of the chat
rooms at the top of the PXO window. A dialog box will appear letting you
know what chat room you're in.
To type something that everyone in the chat room can view, just type
something and hit Enter. To send a private message to another pilot, click
"Send Private Message", then type the message and pilot name in the dialog
box that appears. You can find a pilot if you know his name by clicking "Find
Pilot" and typing his or her name in the dialog box that appears. (This option
will only find pilots in PXO Chat, not pilots who are in the middle of a PXO
game.) After entering a chat room, you can get any pilot's stats by clicking
on his name in the leftmost column then clicking "Get Pilot Info".
When you're ready to start or join a game, click "Go To Games" and start or
join a game as detailed below.
In addition to the Chat and Game Matching services, PXO also gathers
statistics from games played, including kills and deaths for each player. Visit
the PXO web page at http://www.parallaxonline.com/ to view your stats, see
the latest rankings, or see a list of games currently being played.
A note about firewalls and proxies: You can't host a PXO game from behind a
firewall. You can join a PXO game just fine, as long as the appropriate ports
are up. See "Firewalls and Proxies", below.
DirectPlay Modem
This option lets you use your modem to directly play against another player.
Note that this is not for Internet games when you use your modem to dial an
ISP (Internet Service Provider) -- it's to let you directly call a friend over the
modem to play. You need DirectX 6.1 to play a direct modem game, so
Windows NT users can't use this option.
Before you try to play Descent 3 over a direct modem connection, you must
configure your modem through Windows. You can do this with the "Modem"
option in the Windows Control Panel.
After you choose a Direct Modem game, a screen appears letting you
choose your modem, in case you have more than one. Click on your
modem.
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