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A friend and I were so desperate to play over serial that, lacking the proper serial cable, we "shimmed" the PCs with books to get the serial ports at the same
by EvanAnderson 8y ago
A friend and I were so desperate to play over serial that, lacking the proper serial cable, we "shimmed" the PCs with books to get the serial ports at the same height, put them back-to-back, and made a "cable" out of gender changers and null modems that we had sitting around.
- eggsome 8y agoI can do you one better. We emulated IPX over serial so that we could have have 3 players. I can't seem to find any information on the net regarding this, but I know that we managed to get it working somehow. There was some dirty TSR hack that intercepted IPX calls and sent them via serial. One of the PCs (with 2 serial ports) had to act as the "gateway" and run the game first, then the "edge" PCs could connect. Fortunately my best friend had 2 serial ports and a seperate PS2 port for his mouse (although whenever he rage quit both of our PCs hardlocked for some reason). If I recall correctly it only worked with a particular version of the DOOM exe - so we could only play the shareware version (despite having access to the full game). 6 months later we pooled some cash and got NE2000 cards so that we could play properly without dicking around with crazy hacks - I do recall my friend being disappointed that he could no longer crash our PCs and end the game when he lost anymore :)
- JohnBooty 8y agoOh my god, I love this. Of all the rigged-up gaming solutions I've heard over the years, this might take the cake.