Subj : Re: DIY Laplink cable results
To   : Bob Worm
From : kirkspragg
Date : Sat Aug 23 2025 17:55:59

 BW> Eugh... mutli-I/O cards with 16450 UARTs really spoiled my day a few
 BW> times back in the 90s. I (486SX-25 with 16550) used to play Duke 3D with
 BW> my brother (486DX2-66 with 16450) over serial and it would regularly
 BW> crash. Always my brother's computer pulled it down.

Lol! I have similar memories of playing the settlers 1 & 2 as well as the original warcraft over a null modem connection with a mate who has a 486 & my 386dx40. It mostly worked but had to keep baud rate down at something pitiful or it would all fall apart.

These days trying to find ISA multi-io cards with 16550 uarts is difficult :/ the type of UART a card has its not something the ebay vendors selling vintage PC cards advertise.

I'd love to try out an ISA EPP printer port to see how much faster that would be vs a standard one, but how do you find an ISA EPP printer card? ISA Parallel port cards are there but how do you tell if its standard SPP or the faster EPP parallel port? 

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