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Richard, I'm using a Practical Peripherals 2400baud MNP modem, and it has been most helpful to me. It works best when it can connect to another MNP modem, but can connect to others. You do lose many of the benefits when the other modem is not MNP capable, though – especially the faster throughput. 1. If the modem is listed as MNP, then the error checking is in hardware. It is possible to emulate this in software, and this is done in a few cases, but it is not as satisfactory, according to my reading. 2. If both modems are MNP level 5, then there is data compression and you really do get the data much faster. If only one is MNP capable, this does not happen. 3. The biggest benefit of MNP for me is that it screens out the line noise that was constantly plagueing me. I never see those stray characters on the screen any more, and I get more accurate transfers. My phone line is particularly noisy, and this has been a real benefit to me. 4. Sorry, don't know about the games. ……Betty