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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago

Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

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Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser

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Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours ago
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There are fan-made browser versions of Red Alert, Unreal Tournament, and more.
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    Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.

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

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

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          Me, a Windows 2000 user:

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

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

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

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          XP? The bloated offspring of Windows 2000?

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      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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      Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.

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

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