Glad to see Tribes get a mention. I spent a hell of a lot of time in that game. learning how to ski was mini game in itself. It was a great feeling when you mailed it When you nailed it.
Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser
Submitted 2 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to games@lemmy.world
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tulwinn@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
ToxicWaste@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s just not the same, even if they both have “ant” in the name.
SimAnt is a sim where you writhe in burning agony while the spider’s deadly venom flows through your body.
Microsoft Ants wasa sweaty online PvP RTS two years before StarCraft was even born.
goomba@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
That just unlocked a lost memory, Microsoft Ants wow!
JerkyChew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
ITT: People who don’t know that Windows 95-98 and Windows ME were gui front-ends for a DOS kernel.
Most games of this era wouldn’t run on Windows 2000, the first consumer Windows OS not built on DOS.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 2 days ago
ME was the only consumer release in 2000.
2000 was the direct successor to NT4 and was specifically targeting the business market. It was available in Pro, Server, Adv Server, and Datacenter editions. I would not call it a consumer Windows OS.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That‘s interesting because I remember our home computer ran on it for a while. I guess that was only because my father was friends with a PC shop owner who knew about it.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
I never encountered a single Windows 9x game that wouldn’t run on Windows 2000 Pro. It was my primary OS in 2003 or so, having moved from Windows 98 SE.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Had a friend that did the same, we played the same games and I was on xp.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I ran everything on 2000
grue@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I distinctly remember running most, if not all, of my games on Windows 2000 (not ME). I mean, yeah, NT 4 was pretty hopeless for gaming, but 2000 was better.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Windows was built on IBM compatible MS-DOS, not DOS. The term “DOS” was so ubiquitous with OBM compatibility specifically, that it almost exclusively referred to MS-DOS, and not any other variant. Windows 95 does not run on top of Atari DOS, for example, and therefore trying to run any Windows 95 application in Atari DOS would not be possible.
Software natively compiled for Windows 95 will not usually run in any other variant of DOS than MS-DOS, and in some cases, even MS-DOS itself.
Quake II released in 1997 natively for Windows 95, but was not compatible with other DOS based operating systems at the time. Over the years, fans have tried to “backport” it to other variants of DOS, most notably Q2DOS. But its original PC release does not natively support any OS other than Windows 95. Many games of this era are like this, and a game released in this era usually said it was compatible with “Windows 95/98/ME,” not “DOS.”
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Just play OpenRA instead of Red Alert (or one of it’s mods like Combined Arms)
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 2 days ago
Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
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.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days 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.
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.
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
So he’s gotta be born no later than 1985.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert…
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. :)