[willmacdonald]

I remember doing that with RS-232 connections and Doom 1.

[antod]

Yup. It had to be a null modem cable rather than a standard serial cable. They were the equivalent of a cross over ethernet cable.

Later on we had the fun of figuring out IPX/SPX network drivers on DOS over 10base2 to get a 4 player game going.

[jinglebells]

haha, oh god the twisted pair coax and "can everyone come out and COMIT again"! Man, those were good times!