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Well here it is. If you've gotten this far then you obviously want to try
to DOOM via the modem. All that you will find in this ZIP file are the
serial line packet drivers. These packet drivers are written just like the
ones you use to talk to your ethernet cards except they talk to the specified
serial port instead. Pretty cool huh?
These drivers don't have the ability to dial a modem. To do that your going
to have to go into some sort of communications package (I use Kermit) to
setup and dial your modem. Once the connection has been made you will want
to exit your communications program leaving the line connected. A few of the
communications packages won't let you do this. As part of their exit routine
they will send drop the DTR causing the line to be dropped (the version of
ProComm I have does this.) You can try looking through your communication
package documentation and see if you can turn this 'feature' off.
If somebody out there is a real hacker you could write your own dialer. All
it would have to do is configure the modem and dial the modem. Once a
connection is established it could exit to the DOS prompt or maybe even spawn
the serial port packet driver. If you do write something like this maybe you
could share.
Now that you've got the modems connected and exited your communications
application (don't just load another command.com shell, you'll need all the
memory for DOOM) you can load the serial port packet drivers. This is where
I get lost as I don't have much experience doing this. Give it a try. If
you get it to work (I'll be trying in the near future also) tell us what you
did and if it works well enough for DOOMing.
Good luck,
Tom Moritz
P.S. I would recommend trying ETHERSL.COM first. The others seem to be
constructed for use with a SLIP server and since we aren't talking
IP here they probably aren't the best. I included them incase ETHERSL
doesn't work.