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First post, by MiniMax

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http://us.cnn.com/2009/TECH/03/24/onlive.vide … sole/index.html

OnLive, which was started by WebTV founder Steve Perlman and former Eidos CEO Mike McGarvey, is aiming to launch a system -- seven years in the works -- that will digitally distribute first-run, AAA games from publishers like Electronic Arts, Take-Two, Ubisoft, Atari, and others, all at the same time as those titles are released into retail channels.

The system is designed to allow players to stream on-demand games at the highest quality onto any Intel-based Mac or PC running XP or Vista, regardless of how powerful the computer.

The system will also stream games directly to a TV via a small plug-in device, and players can use a custom wireless controller as well as VoIP headsets in conjunction with it.

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Reply 1 of 6, by retro games 100

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I think the "64 million dollar question" is - how much will it cost per month?
And also, will I be able to play Dark Forces on it? 😉

Reply 4 of 6, by Harekiet

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We don't care about all these fancy new games anyway, we'll be playing dos games till infinity!

Reply 5 of 6, by retro games 100

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Harekiet wrote:

We don't care about all these fancy new games anyway, we'll be playing dos games till infinity!

till infinity, and beyond! 😉

Reply 6 of 6, by DosFreak

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I did think a couple of months ago about using TS Remote App in Windows 2008 to serve up DOS games. Never got around to testing it but I'm betting it would be pretty fast. It would work fine for myself since I have MSDN but if I wanted to setup an internet server it would cost about 60$ just for the User CAL for each person (not to mention the server and OS cost).

and of course likely needing to have an individual copy of each retail game for individual users.....

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