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Re: Retrolan - Sad experience

in Milliways
I salute a fellow LAN-gamer and partake in the sorrow for the loss of this once greatest gaming option. The best multiplayer experiences I ever had were hotseat or getting the crew together for something like this. If you weren't all the way in Argentina, I'd join you. At least for UT, StarCraft and …

Re: Use Win95 instead of DOS

ok, now the question? why choose 98 instead of 95c? There is no usb-isa card... Win95 RTM or Win 95 OSR2 without IE will be nicer on this rig. Win 98 and later will choke it, because IE4 and later will eat all your free RAM. Trust me, 32MB of RAM with Win9x+IE will be terrible. See here for how to …

Re: Old scratched cd backup help

in Milliways
Sadly not all CD- / DVD-drives are made equal. My benchmark is an old, fairly banged up CD that has the game music as regular audio tracks. I've noticed a particular track will skip or elicit other weirdness when a weaker CD-drive is used. A better quality drive will play the audio without issues. …

Re: YOUR favorate game era.

in Milliways
Early to late 90's. What an amazing stretch in all possible metrics. After that, suddenly, you had to have a matching version of DirectX and video card, and all the hardware became cheap black plastic with neon lights in it, and your regular office chair is now called a gaming chair for some reason …

Re: Favorite forgotten games

in Milliways
Everyone I knew who played strategy games played Civ. We played Conquest of The New World. It was quite a fun turn-based strategy game that even had a hot-seat option (playing multiplayer on the same computer). Wasted hours years on this.

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