No. They shut down loooooooong ago. Gamespy's dead too.

Kali's still up though 🤣

Surely some of the programs have been patched to use alternative servers though, right?

I guess I wasn't so much interested in the playing online part really as with just being able to open up the program and reminisce if that makes since?

I have fond memories of hanging out with a friend and waiting up for hours it seemed on a 28k modem downloading the software and reading all those jokes and clever sayings that they displayed wile you waited. ...Maybe i'm just weird 🤣

I still remember Mlagger (we used to call it Mlagger for whatever reason)...we used to go all through the night playing TA 🤣! Good times 😀

I don't remember anything of those things they said though. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention to those.

leileilol wrote:

No. They shut down loooooooong ago. Gamespy's dead too.

Kali's still up though 🤣

WTF - does "Kali's still up" mean Kali is still emulating IPX networks over the internet in 2017? Or has it mutated into something else over the years? I had no idea it would still be around.

I had a really low Kali serial number back in the day when that was a big dick-waggy status symbol for god-knows-what reason. 😜 Somewhere around 4000 IIRC. I haven't used it in over 15 years but I still remember the IP address to Kali Central (you had to key it in manually for DOS Kali.)

https://mplayer.co/

Someone bought mplayer and put it back up. It's in alpha with Quake 2 and 3 support.

MrEWhite wrote:

https://mplayer.co/

Someone bought mplayer and put it back up. It's in alpha with Quake 2 and 3 support.

Holy crap! That's awesome!...Thanks for sharing.

Other than Gamespy, which services were directly incorporated into game clients back in the day, making a fundamental feature of games inaccessible today?

Won.net and Heat.net.

Early SOE-ran games are also defunct (Tanarus, Infantry etc)

TEN's exclusive games mostly separated later on (Warheads, Wulfram, Blast Doors), though some not so fortunate (WizWar)

There's also those GameStorm Battletech/Aliens/Godzilla games.

I wish there were a P2P software that allows you to play IPX games over the internet 😢 that doesn't require a server to run.

ibm5155 wrote:

I wish there were a P2P software that allows you to play IPX games over the internet 😢 that doesn't require a server to run.

Kali is still a thing I think.

MrEWhite wrote:

ibm5155 wrote:

I wish there were a P2P software that allows you to play IPX games over the internet 😢 that doesn't require a server to run.

Kali is still a thing I think.

But it's P2P or does it send the data to the server and later to the other guy?
I'm saying that because hell, starcraft 1 had almost a 2 seconds delay D: (I was testing with 2 computers at the same lan

ibm5155 wrote:

MrEWhite wrote:

ibm5155 wrote:

I wish there were a P2P software that allows you to play IPX games over the internet 😢 that doesn't require a server to run.

Kali is still a thing I think.

But it's P2P or does it send the data to the server and later to the other guy?
I'm saying that because hell, starcraft 1 had almost a 2 seconds delay D: (I was testing with 2 computers at the same lan

I would think it does P2P, haven't used it in a while though.

silikone wrote:

Other than Gamespy, which services were directly incorporated into game clients back in the day, making a fundamental feature of games inaccessible today?

MSN Gaming Zone. It was a soft integration, though. They had exclusive deals and branding in many games, and the service was critical in actually finding and setting up public matches. All the games did however support manual connections as well, as far as I know.