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14.4 worked fine for Doom MP. Those fun days when a modem init string tweak could gain 10-50% performance increase. Became a sysop of a popular BBS at this time, which led to my 25 year IT career. Fond memories.

AT&F&D2&C1S0=0X4.

Modems used to be a dollar a baud!

Are you sure it was Wolf3D? The original 90's Wolfenstine was single player only...

yeah that was my memory of it too. I didn't recall MP until Doom.

Doom was famous for being one of the first Multiplayer PC games. There is an old anecdote about how John Carmack noted that it would be pretty easy to add network multiplayer to the code he was writing and John Romeo's eyes practically flashed dollar signs.

Of course as an afterthought it had a couple of issues. The primary one being that the framerate was locked to whomever had the slowest computer. Probably drove PC sales as you did NOT want to be the guy who showed up to the LAN party and tanked everyone's FPS.

Let me tell you, there was more than one