Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours agoReturn to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browserarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down11
arrow-up173arrow-down1external-linkReturn to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browserarstechnica.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 hours agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareKoboldCoterie@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·3 hours agoAh yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
minus-squareHeneryHawk@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·3 hours agoYes!! It’ll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as “The DOS days”
minus-squareampersandrew@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoIf it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.
minus-squareBurgerBaron@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 minutes agoI bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·22 seconds agoI 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.
minus-squareFlamekebab@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 hours agoTo 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.
minus-squaretidderuuf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 hours agoArstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.
minus-squareDr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-230 minutes agoParakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell.
Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
Yes!! It’ll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as “The DOS days”
If it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.
Me, a Windows 2000 user:
I bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.
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.
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.
Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.
Parakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell.