I had an acoustic coupler, it had 300 baud. It was a bit bulkier than Jeff's and my phone looked more modern and more square-ish but it still worked.
The first thing I used it for was playing Doom 2 DM with a friend. It was amazing. Typing sucked though because if I typed too loud it disrupted the connection.
There was a great german TV show in early 2000s. It was Giga Games of which the website still runs and now has a youtube channel etc (and I cant say anything about the quality these days or the last 16 years really.)
Anyway it was basically proto-UPF on TV and it was great. Also one of the dudes there introduced me to one of the video game forums that Brad was and probably still is active in which lead me directly to this website. So there is a direct lineage in my personal canon from there to here.
You can sideload xcloud on a ShieldTV. I did this a couple weeks ago and it worked ok. Still looks kind of bad at times on a huge TV but that's just the nature of streaming from what is basically a XBox One S and also streaming at all. And sometimes it looks good enough that you can forget that it's streaming. Still kind of hard to hit corners right in Forza with the added lag.
Regarding lag, I stream games from my PC to the shield via cable and I still have to use the controller connected directly to the PC because to me games like Wolfenstein II or Control become way too hard otherwise.
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oh and regarding the whole thing in the comments about Jeff: lol.
Would (early) 90s PC gaming qualify for this show at this point?
I would love to see games like Alone in the Dark, Comanche, or such... or maybe more obscure ones like early CD games such as Novastorm or Deadly Tide. Or what about the real early DirectX 3d games? Those had some real bangers.
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