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[–] • 6 pts

HAVE YOU EVEN EVER PLAYED DOOM! ON A MODEM?

[–] • 2 pts

Fuck yeah, AOL dial up based deathmatches.

Great times.

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

I have. The first doom used all broadcast packets, and we would bring the corporate network down thankfully they still had a 16M token ring network up and running, so we started hopping on that instead of the 10B/T everyone else was on. The 19-33k dialup wasn't the best - I had a home isdn line installed so my latency went to 2 ms when Quake came out.

[–] • 0 pt

I used to play Quake with a modem. Even got 150ms pings because the quake server was on my local ISP's servers.

[–] • 1 pt

I moved just so I could have DSL (which was rare at the time) and run a Quake server. Also bought an AMD Athlon when they first came out to build my Quake server. LAN parties FTW.

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Quake demo was the shit. Full 3-D. That fucking ogre with a chainsaw hand you could lob grenades at. Then head down the stairwell to the left.