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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 49 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.

[–] HeneryHawk@reddthat.com 34 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yes!! It'll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as "The DOS days"

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 12 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

If it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was joking but now I'm wondering if it was just a label change, huh.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 4 points 18 hours ago

I ran loads of normal (Windows 9x) games on Windows 2000 Pro.

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 points 18 hours ago

XP? The bloated offspring of Windows 2000?

[–] Flamekebab@piefed.social 22 points 22 hours 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 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Parakeets typically understand how to get what they need out of a shell.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago

I was gonna say that he might simply not have been around when Red Alert 2 came out, but

https://www.whitepages.com/name/Samuel-Sott-Axon/Los-Angeles-CA/Pl8a1drMk8b

40s Age Range

So he's gotta be born no later than 1985.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2

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.

[–] Teal@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

And there I was playing The Manhole. :)