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In article <3vr174$7...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
BlizzrdEnt <blizz...@aol.com> wrote:
>[...]
>-I broke down and bought a couple of 'high-speed' serial ports, the kind
>-with 16550 UARTS in them.  (These have a bigger I/O buffer.)
>
>-Today, I tried a direct-link without the DLINK option, and much to my 
>-surprise, the jerkiness was almost completely gone.
>
>-So, what does the DLINK option actually do?
>
>-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.
>
>The DLINK option, which is probably over-used, was specificly designed for
>a problem when playing either an 8250 against another 8250 or against a
>16550.
>All it does is add an extra conrimation to each game cycle.  It can be
>used by only one player, especially if one player has an 8250 and one a
>16550, in which case the player with the 8250 would be the one to use it. 
>It is unnecessary for situations where both players are using 16550's (in
>which case the 1.12 version will probably work just fine).
>
>Tymothi Loving
>CSE
>Blizzard Entertainment

Thanks very much for the lucid and complete explanation ...

May I suggest this would be useful information to include in your readme.txt
packaged with the 1.21 patch, or also somewhere in your web page?

It is much nicer with the 16550 I/O cards, and that makes a lot of difference
to hapless Warcraft addicts like me.

Thanks for the excellent game, and for the unit editor, which is a terrific
bonus.

-- Rich
(depa...@netcom.com)