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- Path: netcom.com!cuzens
- From: cuzens@netcom.com (Jarrod Cuzens)
- Subject: Connecting two modems directly
- Message-ID: <cuzensDMDyL0.7zt@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
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- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 03:19:48 GMT
- Sender: cuzens@netcom6.netcom.com
-
- To whomever it may concern:
- My roommate and I have recently purchased a 50' RS-232 telephone
- cable and connected to the line jacks of each of our modems. We are doing
- to try to play a game together, but have been unsuccessful. First of all
- is it possible to use the rs-232 as a substitute for the Direct Link play
- which would require us to purchase null modem cable which is much more
- expensive and bulky. What we are trying to do is to use our modems to
- play the game without a phone line. I have tried to get the modem play to
- work by saying atx3dt and answering with ata but the game won't allow us
- to pick up using ata, only ats0=1 which requires a ring. I also tried
- going through a comm program called terminat in which I think I was
- successful in disabling all of the compression and error handling (which
- is required by the game) and then connected and used the direct link play
- however this didn't work because the modem sends gibberish and only one
- modem insists on sending while the other does not receive and no matter
- what I do can I get the other to send while the latter recieves. Anyway,
- I was simply asking for help as to if what we are doing is possible and
- if we could simulate either a modem ring (or something else which would
- produce the correct response) without the phone line, or if we could
- successfully get the modems to just act as a kind UART(I guess) by maybe
- making them dumb terminals with cd overrides or DCT overrides, or
- something else which would enable us to use them instead of making us go
- out and get 35' of serial cable which would probably cost upwards to
- $20.00. Thanx for any help you can give!<:-)
- Jarrod Cuzens
- cuzens@netcom.com
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