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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-05-24 21:57:45
Heh. Installed the old gaming legend on my PB1400 and called up my friend. He said "Uh, I don't think Battle.Net is still up."
Heheheh.
But a real challenge would be running Diablo on a PB1400, another machine running it on a Win95 virtual machine, and then finding a way to emulate IPX over TCP/IP--anyone done anything like that?
Best,
John
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-25 00:03:28
There are plenty of nice old games that needed a main server to play online, sucks most of those servers are down. Age of Empires used to need microsofts zone.com for multiplayer but people created a client and put up a server and we still play (500+ players on the weekends).
Other games like Tribes and UT which anyone can make a server will be played for ages.
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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-05-25 07:11:45
You mean Blizzard isn't still hosting Battle.net 15 years after release?! Man, where has the product support gone!? :lol:
Best,
John
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Posted by: ~Coxy on 2010-05-25 20:49:31
I thought the old battle.net was still up?
Starcraft 1 runs on it, after all, and that game will likely never die.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-25 23:41:03
Starcraft 1 is still huge in S. Korea I think.
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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-05-25 23:41:35
You're kidding me. Right?
Huh. I guess not. That's too funny. Okay, I have to give this a try now.
Best,
John
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2010-05-26 00:13:38
Not only are they still into it, but I think there is a bunch of money to be won as well.
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Posted by: jwmcfarlin on 2010-06-12 20:39:05
A friend called me today and said "The Devil's in town!"
So, we fired it up, him running his game on a Windows XP Virtual Machine from a .iso image and me running mine from my PB1400c/250. It worked just fine, though I had to host the game--for some reason it kept timing out if he hosted.
I have to say, it was just as playable now as it was then. The graphics are a little dated, but generally pretty good. Definitely at or near the apex of pixel graphics.
I wonder if there's a hack to get it to play at 800x600. It'd be nice to have a little more real estate in the active window.
Best,
John
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