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Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/games@lemmy.world

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 65 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.

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[–] HeneryHawk@reddthat.com 38 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Yes!! It'll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as "The DOS days"

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[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Me, a Windows 2000 user:

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I definitely own Diablo and I definitely used Win2K, but I didn't go out of my way to buy a weird special version of it. This leads me to believe the normal Windows 95 version would work on NT as well.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I was joking but now I'm wondering if it was just a label change, huh.

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 5 points 8 months ago

I ran loads of normal (Windows 9x) games on Windows 2000 Pro.

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 8 months ago

XP? The bloated offspring of Windows 2000?

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[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 25 points 8 months ago

To be fair, Red Alert came out in 1996 and was available for DOS.

Red Alert 2, not so much. DOS ports fell off hard by about '98, so this headline is weird.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

Parakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 8 months ago

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 8 months ago

I was gonna say that he might simply not have been around when Red Alert 2 came out, but

https://www.whitepages.com/name/Samuel-Sott-Axon/Los-Angeles-CA/Pl8a1drMk8b

40s Age Range

So he's gotta be born no later than 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2

Release: NA: October 25, 2000

So he couldn't have been younger than 15 at the game's release (and could have been as old as 25).

That being said, that game came out a quarter-century ago, and there are people in the workforce who won't have been born when it was released. Can't just assume any more.

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[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 point 8 months ago

I think they have the knowledge, but write only about what brings views.
From how often they write about Elon Musk, you'd think they are his promotion department.

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[–] Teal@piefed.zip 1 point 8 months ago

And there I was playing The Manhole. :)

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