Subj : Re: Games of 2022
To   : bbsing
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Mar 25 2022 21:37:30

 bb> In person is really the best. 
 bb> Sometime around 1999 through possibly 2004, a bunch of internet cafes
 bb> popped up. So Friday or Saturday night would be gaming in the cafe. That
 bb> was great because those computers were better than I had, and for way
 bb> way cheaper than an arcade (if you were not epic player), that entire
 bb> lan party experience could be had. 
 bb> Then the internet cafe's just vanished. 
 bb> 
 bb> The taunting aspect was certainly a fun part of it. People knew when not
 bb> to take it too far, and it seemed to just push each of us to try a bit
 bb> harder, and play a bit better. 
 bb> 
Some friends and I used to play at my house, and at time one of their places. We'd play Doom and Call of Duty mostly, Doom was played using DOS with some old computers I had connected via ISA network cards.

I remember once with some other friends, we wanted to play Doom three player. Well, the stock standard sersetup didn't allow it, and we didn't have a network.  But there was a variant of sersetup, the serial driver than set up serial/modem games that did support three players.

So one computer was linked to mine via a null modem cable.  The other, we brought our modems, and connected them both to a phone socket double adapter, no actual phone line used.  With the modems connected to the double adapater, if we got both to "answer" with an ATA command at the same time, they would handshake and negotiate despite not being connected to the phone system.  You had to get the timing right, but then if you exited the terminal program, you could then initiate the three way Doom.  Took ages to get working ,but we played until it was almost dawn.

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