Analog modem emulator?

[Jim Leonard]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> I'm thinking back to the original intent of this.  Is it that the guy
> wanting to do this (sorry, forgot who you are) wants to put a computer
> running a BBS on the internet?  If so, all these suggestions are overkill.

Agreed, but I would KILL to be able to play modem games again -- not BBS games, 
but games for which the only method of playing against someone else was via 
modem or null-modem cable.  Dan Buntin's Modem Wars comes to mind.  Some games 
even let you play against players with completely different hardware, such as 
Populus (PC vs. Amiga worked), Armor Alley (PC vs. Macintosh worked), etc.

I think that that kind of emulation is not going to happen... unless I get off 
my ass and write it myself.  I think the only practical way to get it to happen 
is to come up with some sort of protocol and/or document it fully with portable 
source code, and then implement it in some emulators, like WinUAE and DOSBOX, 
and finally demonstrate a working 2-player game using the "modem" setting in 
the game, but going over TCP/IP.
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