Re: Warcraft: Better serial games with 'hi-speed' port?

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From: ro... John Rosenquist
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 00:00

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In article <departedD...@netcom.com>, depa...@netcom.com (just
passing through) wrote:

> Here's something interesting for people who are using the direct serial
> link option, and some questions for Blizzard support.
> 
> I think I did try w/o the DLINK option when I had regular boring serial
> ports, and then the game would crash, but I'm not sure.
> 
> I'd just like to suggest to serial-link players that they try 'high-speed'
> serial ports w/o DLINK, but I'm also curious what the DLINK option actually 
> did, why it made play somewhat jerky, and why a 16550 UART would make
the DLINK
> option unnecessary, if it ever was necessary.

How do you do this without the DLINK option? Thanks.

      John.

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From: ro...@bert.cs.byu.edu (John Rosenquist)
Subject: Re: Warcraft: Better serial games with 'hi-speed' port?
Date: 1995/08/03
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