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Nah dude, Daggerfall. Daggerfall Unity is the best of both modern and old school, especially with the DREAM mod.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn't there a thing where if you clicked on the speaker in the top right corner you could play against ants or something

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 3 points 13 hours ago

That was part of the counterstrike expansion.

[–] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There was a function in WORD, where ants could walk around your text...

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 12 hours ago

Say what, now? Like Microsoft Word?

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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!

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

Gonna go fire up Wing Commander 2.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I heard my Nokia getting a text message through the distortion in the speakers by just looking at this photo

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

Dun dudun dun dudun dun dudun duuuuuuuuuuun.

[–] Cactusfighter@lemmy.org 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

RA and RA2 were so awesome.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Yuri's Revenge with the Devastator mod.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 17 hours ago

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!

o7

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

It's like they were doing their best Sean Connery impressions

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I actually got this from the snap store on Ubuntu

[–] manigordo@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] manigordo@lemy.lol 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] khannie@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

Acknowledged

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Gentlemen... it is a nuclear device." "T-T-Time-Time is running out."

[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 13 hours ago

dadadaaa dadadaaa dadadadadadadaaaa

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Still have mine in a shoebox somewhere

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Can we play Age of Empires after this?

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 17 hours ago

Don't point that thing at me!

[–] Cheesus@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

It is

Whaaaat?

[–] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 17 hours ago

How do you turn this on

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] nebthron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I still hope theres copies of the takes that didnt make it if thats the best one

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dune 2? That was my jam.

Dune 1, iirc, was more of a story based game.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Back in the day before you could group select units.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It’s weird this picture looks like it shouldn’t be this high resolution.

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Company of Heroes

Worth checking out, though, thank you1 <3

[–] JamieDub86@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

Take me back.

My childhood!

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