My now over 20 years old self built rig still runs. It's a time capsule, running winxp with photoshop 7. It has Winamp and all my old music. And it has games like red alert 2 and generals zero hour.
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Wasn't there a thing where if you clicked on the speaker in the top right corner you could play against ants or something
There was a function in WORD, where ants could walk around your text...
Say what, now? Like Microsoft Word?
That was part of the counterstrike expansion.
Awesome! Love your period hardware. I have a complete XP setup, but I would love a 95/98 setup. No more room.
I did install 86Box last week, though! And installed 98SE. I was also partying like it's 1996 with Microsoft Hellbender!
Gonna go fire up Wing Commander 2.
Still have mine in a shoebox somewhere
Westwood studios was a treasure
While everyone was in Tristram, I was spending my teenage nights playing NOX
Anyone else remember their Blade Runnder game?
Dairy and dairy products are class 2 contraband
RA and RA2 were so awesome.
Yuri's Revenge with the Devastator mod.
I personally think Yuri’s Revenge brought about a bit too much mechanical cheese, and prefer vanilla RA2 - but I won’t begrudge a fellow fan their preferences!
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ACKHnowledged.
I heard my Nokia getting a text message through the distortion in the speakers by just looking at this photo
Dun dudun dun dudun dun dudun duuuuuuuuuuun.
You're welcome.
I actually got this from the snap store on Ubuntu
Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.
Never played C&C on its time, but I play some games of ORA every now and then. Not bad at all I must admit.
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Ah, decoding the morse code at the back of the counterstrike manual to find the instructions for unlocking the secret ant missions. I think it involved clicking on the speaker looking thing in the top right of the menu while pressing shift
Hell March intensifies
"Gentlemen... it is a nuclear device." "T-T-Time-Time is running out."
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Can we play Age of Empires after this?
Wololo
Don't point that thing at me!
Age of Empires Il still has a very active scene with new content all the time. In fact there's a new expansion dropping this week!
Is AOE 2 the one where you could use a cheat code to spawn in a blue sportscar with a machine gun on the front?
I seem to half-remember taking a few of those into France a few times lol.
It is. But there was a black sportscar in AoE 1, as well. And a laser gun warrior and a similar looking dude shooting miniature nuclear missiles.
It is
Whaaaat?
How do you turn this on
I still hope theres copies of the takes that didnt make it if thats the best one
dune is the way.
Dune 2? That was my jam.
Dune 1, iirc, was more of a story based game.
I think it was 2. ordo got assasins from palace, atreides got fremen, and harkonen got nukes. you would think nukes would be op but oh man the fremen.
Back in the day before you could group select units.
It’s weird this picture looks like it shouldn’t be this high resolution.
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I play AoE these days because it has - relatively speaking - more real units. I do wish there was an AoE or C&C type game that used just realistic troops and vehicles and such. Seems like we have the computing power these days for a much larger-scale area of battle where you could command troops and vehicles over a small city sized map. Still RTS with fog of war and such… Maybe better simulated behaviours for the troops. But command your groups of military to go take out targets or attack positions and take terrain and such...
Seems like it'd be awesome, but nobody has done it.
There's Company of Heroes with realistic units and "order based" real-time combat, alas, it is not very large scale.
Closest I remember to your description is another very old game: Sid Meier's Gettysburg. But that was limited by the possibilities of its time.
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