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The first time I managed to get the COM port baud settings right for DOOM deathmatch to work with my m8’s 486 I nearly oozed a thin, clear prepubescent bead out.
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I remeber being amazed that I could chat shit to my mate who was a few blocks away in country Australia with both of us playing Descent (probs a free version off a magazine?) over the phone lines. He went on to code a commercial Quake reskin (https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Malice_(mod)) and last I heard was working for Nintendo.
I also remember spending all night trying to get one of our guy's machines connected via coax cable and eventually mind blown we solved it and could play Doom in lan party before the phrase existed. I don't know what was going on but I remember lots of junk food and somethign about UART.
hippy
Shit, the last time I carried a PC to someone's house to play deathmatch was Quake-era.