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Hoopz:
300 baud for C64 that fit into the cartridge slot.

Quake is great.  I remember downloading and playing in the Quake Test (the level the that came out before the demo) and being amazed.

But nothing prepared you for the monsters and demons in Doom when you could hear them before opening doors....
JDFan:

--- Quote from: JoeB on December 10, 2013, 07:15:36 pm ---Gee thanks!! You made a cold shiver go down my spine. I remember playing this game like it was yesterday!! @$;$;@( life passes by way too darn fast!!

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Same here -- although it was yesterday that I was again playing it -- ChancKJ mentioned having problems getting old Dos games running on win 7 x64 in the software Forum and mentioned DOOM so had to break out D-fend Reloaded and make sure I had it working on it before posting in the thread so afterwards had to play a few hours !!
nordemoniac:

--- Quote from: Slippyblade on December 10, 2013, 07:38:48 pm ---28.8... Wow, kids.

I actually downloaded the shareware release on a 1200 baud modem back in the day.  My god, that game was the most amazing thing EVER (at the time).  First piece of shareware I ever registered.  Buddy of mine was beta-testing a 28.8 modem for USR back then.  Thing was bigger than a modern day flatbed scanner.

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Heh, I remember that. I was just a kid, and my friends dad got us shareware from the big US... It was like christmas every time!

Remember in the later years as well... Wacky wheels...
wp34:

--- Quote from: jasonbar on December 10, 2013, 08:29:48 pm ---I win. Atari 830 was my first.

300 big fat bauds.

-Jason

PS--DOOM was my first network game played--used to play after work at my job in 93/94. So full of awesome.

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Man I wanted one of those but by the time I bought my modem they had replaced it with the 1030 which was direct connect. I wanted to be like David Lightman AND the dumb thing clashed with my Atari 800.

Hoopz:
I read a brief interview with John Carmack yesterday and he discussed how he knew very little about networking and the protocol he put in the game didn't handle the traffic in the best way for the network.  He got a call from an admin in the middle of the night who was pissed as hell about the game on his network. 

How times have changed for Carmack....
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