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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KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 days ago
Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 days ago
Parakeets typically understand how to get what they want out of a shell.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 days ago
tal@lemmy.today 2 days ago
I was gonna say that he might simply not have been around when Red Alert 2 came out, but
www.whitepages.com/name/…/Pl8a1drMk8b
40s Age Range
So he’s gotta be born no later than 1985.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert…
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.
kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 day 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.
Teal@piefed.zip 1 day ago
And there I was playing The Manhole. :)
HeneryHawk@reddthat.com 2 days ago
Yes!! It’ll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as “The DOS days”
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me, a Windows 2000 user:
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BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 days ago
I bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
XP? The bloated offspring of Windows 2000?