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ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>...
>> >>>>> We had an acoustic coupler for awhile.  I think I could type faster than
>> >>>>> it sent letters.
>> >>
>> >>>> That's like 300 speed. ;)
>> >>
>> >>> Depends on how fast you can type :-)
>> >>> 300 baud is probably amazingly fast to hunt-n-peck typists.
>> >>
>> >> I hunt and peck on smartphones since I have to have one hand hold it and while other hand type!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> And in the 80s, before GUIs were common and everything -even a lot of
>> >>> games - were character-based, 300 baud was probably usable, if a bit
>> >>> slow. Although I can't imagine using anything that pokey for
>> >>> downloading stuff; even 28,8kbps was tedious at those speeds (the
>> >>> original Doom Shareware took me over an hour to get, back in the day).
>> >>> Even looking at images was a chore; you'd queue up two or three and
>> >>> that would be it for the night ;-)
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, but you had those evil line noises!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> > 
>> > No, you didn't. Most modems supported the AT M0 command, which turned
>> > off the speaker from the start. It was one of the first AT commands I
>> > learned, and boy howdy did I make sure every AT string I used included
>> > it! That squeal people associate with the dial-up era of the Internet?
>> > 
>> > I never heard it.
>> > 
>> Then you were never properly IN the dial-up era of the Internet!!
>
>Let's fix that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k :)
>It's funny to read the auto text (subtitle/closed captioning)s. :D
>
>Speaking of action games, what games did you play over dial-up? For me, 
>Duke3D, DOOM, Heretic, BattleZone, MotoRacer, Diablo, Warcraft, Quake, etc.

Being mostly a single player guy, not many.

Descent a few times, DOOM co-op a couple of times.

Diablo - I would start a game in network multiplayer mode and play solo.
In the event I got a bad random level and got killed and could not
retrieve my stuff, I'd call up a friend and he'd join the game and help.
I did the same for him.

Limited multiplayer Mechwarior 3 - It was just head to head duels so it
wasn't much fun, although I have a fond memory of the aforementioned
friend picking a small fast mech for a duel and me taking a large one I
armed with Gauss Rifles and me blowing off half his mech with the first
salvo.

I think that's about it, although it's possible we did a duke3d
multiplayer at some point, and I think I might have done quake pvp once

Xocyll