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| From | ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Dial-up modems (Re: FREE GAME: Spirit of the Mouse) |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action |
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| Date | 2024-10-14 00:01 +0000 |
Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:13:39 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:17:50 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:
> >> >Speaking of action games, what games did you play over dial-up? For me,
> >> >Duke3D, DOOM, Heretic, BattleZone, MotoRacer, Diablo, Warcraft, Quake, etc.
> >> If you mean direct connect (as opposed to dial-up Internet), then
> >> pretty much Doom. I think we tried Falcon 3.0 (or some flight sim?)
> >> and Wing Commander Armada, and a few others here and there (thinking
> >> back, I remember Witchhaven briefly entertained us) but mainly I
> >> remember playing a lot of Doom.
> >Nah, that's like direct serial connection. I remember parallel cable
> >could be used for DOOM back in 1994! It actually worked, but slow. I
> >tried to find it but https://archive.org/details/cdrom_201511 is
> >temporarily down. :(.
> >
> Well, only in the sense that the modem connected to the serial port.
> [Oh boy, those were the days when you had to know the IRQ
> and port assignments for your serial ports. I am NOT unhappy
> that little bit of trivia has escaped my brain]
> You could do a direct connect between two computers via serial (either
> by a null-modem cable or parallel if you were hacky) but modems meant
> you didn't have to be in the same room. It did limit you to just two
> players... but then so did serial connects.
> It being the early days of multiplayer, my friends and I shared a
> couple of walkie-talkie radios (as we lived in nearby apartments) that
> had _just_ enough range to allow us voice communications. ;-)
Ha, Much better than typing and reading chat texts.
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