Phew.. old serial/LAN games over ADSL?

Okay, this might be easy or it might not - I've tried to research via Google
but not got very far at all.

An old gaming acquaintance and I want to play some games across our
broadband connections that we used to play on dial-up.. things like Duke
Nukem 3D and Red Alert as well as others. Obviously these games don't have
broadband multiplayer options built in, even if we can get them running on
Windows XP anyway, so is there a way we can still play them?

I've found individual programs for DN3D at least but the multiplayer on all
those seems broken or at least WIP. I also found Kali but that only seems
to run the vanilla version of Duke 3D and I need to run a Winlauncher for it
so I can play in XP at all.

Is there therefore a program that will emulate a null modem cable, serial
link or IPX/SPX connection directly between our two PCs using only our IP
addresses so that we can play these old games?

All help very much appreciated..

Schnide

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2005 00:31:28 GMT, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
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>Is there therefore a program that will emulate a null modem cable, serial
>link or IPX/SPX connection directly between our two PCs using only our IP
>addresses so that we can play these old games?

http://www.eltima.com/products/vspdnet/

Not free though, I don't think.

deKay
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