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I remember playing Doom II over serial cable (null modem). We tried to copy Duke Nuken 3D over the cable... As far as I remember it would had taken a day or so
by ycuser2 4y ago
I remember playing Doom II over serial cable (null modem).
We tried to copy Duke Nuken 3D over the cable... As far as I remember it would had taken a day or something? We cancled it.
- unixhero 4y agoDuke3d over serial worked fine
- mysterydip 4y agoPresumably with a utility like interlnk. It would depend on the baud rate you had it set to, 9600 would be typical but you could go much slower. Looks like a 20MB zip, not sure how much expanded but certainly more. At a minimum in ideal settings it would take over 5 hours.
- tssva 4y agoDuke3d was released in 1996. PCs by that point had long included some variation of the 16550A UART and interlnk took advantage of the FIFO in the 16550A. A PC powerful enough to run Duke Nukem 3D should not have had a problem transferring at 115200.
- bombcar 4y agoA lot of PCs had issues above about 56k especially if your serial cables weren’t of the highest quality.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoI vividly remember when the Duke 3D shareware demo came out and I faked being sick to stay home from middleschool so I could spend over 4 hours downloading all 6 megabytes of it at 9600 baud.
- aidos 4y agoI think we probably copied it via a laplink cable. We definitely played it multiplayer via a serial cable.
- boredemployee 4y agothe good old days of Duke Nukem 3D and Quake World. trying all kinds of network connection with (hopefully working) db25 printer cables, modems, telnet connections, ethernets, no documentation available, only guessing here and there and some intuition to make a lan to work. 3 hours to make shit to work and 24h playing non stop. I doubt kids these days would have the same perseverance to make fortnite to work lol edit: kids downvoted me because of the fortnite anecdote
- marban 4y agoNull-modem connection? That will be a $20/m in-app purchase.
- qbasic_forever 4y agoIn app purchases in 1993 involved sending a postcard and check to the developer's home address. Such simpler times.
- kfajdsl 4y ago> I doubt kids these days would have the same perseverance to make fortnite to work lol You should have seen the effort we put into getting modded Minecraft servers to work properly...
- bluedino 4y agoMost of us downloaded Duke3D over serial (modems) Shareware version was only 5MB
- icoder 4y agoFirst time we tried with a regular cable. After many attempts, the computer store explained to us kids the concept of a null modem. We bought one on the spot and it has provided us sooo much fun over the years. Money very well spent.
- hk1337 4y agoSerious Sam was as close to Duke Nukem as I got.