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Playing Doom 1/2 multipleyer using Infrared, is it possible?

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First post, by ibm5155

Posted on 2023-10-07, 18:43

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Well, I have tried to play doom under windows 98 using COM4 with Infrared, but it doesn't seems to do anything when I select the serial connectivity.
So in short, is it possible to play Doom under IrDA? or even other ms-dos games? ( So far the only games that I managed to play with infrared were Doom95 and Heroes Might and Magic III)

Reply 1 of 2, by ibm5155

Posted on 2023-10-09, 14:24

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Oh according to this website https://razorback95.com/resources/videos/video-243
The virtual COM created by windows is not visible to MS-DOS applications 😒

Reply 2 of 2, by keenmaster486

Posted on 2023-10-09, 17:07

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Doesn't the BIOS usually expose the infrared sensor as a regular COM port?

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