It seems not many games I want to buy this year.
March
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Triangle Strategy
the new Kirby Game
April
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Nintendo Switch Sports
Chrono Cross Remaster
I haven't bought a game in years. I can keep playing the classics
forever.
I haven't bought a game in years. I can keep playing the classics forever.
I know what you mean. I keep playing classics. They are pretty good. There are some new games out there and they are beautiful looking games, but for m since I've been gaming since the classics, many seem like a version of the classics, some have way better graphics though.
The multiplayer aspects are at next level compared to the classics.
Many source ports from old games support multiplayer modes. Even the
Dune I source ports support multiplayer mode (or the Command and Conquer clones). Also, many classic games support LAN multiplayer, which
Many source ports from old games support multiplayer modes. Even the Dune I source ports support multiplayer mode (or the Command and Conque clones). Also, many classic games support LAN multiplayer, which
Dune I, or did you mean Dune II?
I always wanted to play Dune II multiplayer!
Dune I, or did you mean Dune II?
I always wanted to play Dune II multiplayer!
Dune II, my bad.
Check Dune Legacy. I think there is at least another port. The problem
is they are tailored for multiplayer ONLY so forget about playing
campaign mode. For that it is better to run the MSDOS original (even if under emulation)
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I don't do much multiplayer. When I was a kid I always played campaign modesbecause I had no friends to play with :-)
I should try to drag my friends into a Diablo I emulated-LAN game.
Doom and Doom II, I was lucky enough to tie up the phone line with my neighbor down the street. Playing over modem using the chat feature in
the game was awesome for the time.
I should try to drag my friends into a Diablo I emulated-LAN game.
I missed Diablo I, but I did get into some local lan time on Diablo II.
Have you played Diablo II?
I missed Diablo I, but I did get into some local lan time on Diablo II.
Have you played Diablo II?
Heh, my friends and I used to lug our computers to each others places.
I didn't originally have a fast enough modem, but even when I did get
one, we still met up for the social aspect, for not tying up the phone line, ease of organising games (much easier to start/stop games in
person than over the phone) and just general fun of being in the same
room and taunting each other verbally.
In person is really the best.
Sometime around 1999 through possibly 2004, a bunch of internet cafes popped up. So Friday or Saturday night would be gaming in the cafe. That was great because those computers were better than I had, and for way
way cheaper than an arcade (if you were not epic player), that entire
lan party experience could be had.
Then the internet cafe's just vanished.
The taunting aspect was certainly a fun part of it. People knew when not to take it too far, and it seemed to just push each of us to try a bit harder, and play a bit better.
Some friends and I used to play at my house, and at time one of their places. We'd play Doom and Call of Duty mostly, Doom was played using
DOS with some old
computers I had connected via ISA network cards.
I remember once with some other friends, we wanted to play Doom three player. Well, the stock standard sersetup didn't allow it, and we didn't have a network. But there was a variant of sersetup, the serial driver than set up serial/modem games that did support three players.
So one computer was linked to mine via a null modem cable. The other,
we brought our modems, and connected them both to a phone socket double adapter, no actual phone line used. With the modems connected to the double adapater, if we got both to "answer" with an ATA command at the
same time, they would handshake and negotiate despite not being
connected to the phone system. You had to get the timing right, but
then if you exited the terminal program, you could then initiate the
three way Doom. Took ages to get working ,but we played until it was almost dawn.
Yes the sersetup! That was the way to do it, and you never knew was it going to work the first time or not.
ATS0=1, and a nice ATA at the other end.
Eventually my neighbor and I found out we could use our terminal program to initiate the call (telix), then not hang, then start a multi player doom. I didn't realize 3 players could play. That would have been awesome.
That sounds awesome! My roommate and I played via null modem cable. Like you I had no network card so it was modems or serial lines. Long ago I could play games until dawn and not be wrecked two days later :)
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It worked OK over the null modem cable (I still have one!)
The three player functionality was some third party mod. Someone wrote their own version of sersetup which could do it. Most of the time, we just used the null modem cable.
Man, I miss those days!
I got a couple of think clients and wifimodems and so I'm trying to get them to behave like a dialup. Some of the easier config programs from
back in the days of linux don't like the wifimodem (wimodem) because
they don't detect a dial tone. When I get more time I'll swing back to working the ttymodem setup and create a dialin server to be used kinda like telehack, or a BBS.
The three player functionality was some third party mod. Someone wro their own version of sersetup which could do it. Most of the time, w just used the null modem cable.
Man, I miss those days!
I know what you mean. I miss those days too. I don't know why exactly. Things most things are so much easier these days, or maybe it just seems that way after computing for so long.
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