Didn't "TEN" stand for something like the Total Entertainment Network or something like that? (I'm just guessing, I haven't looked it up.)

I remember that while the internet was still fledgling there were all kinds of services like that, the other two I remember offhand being HEAT and DWANGO.

...I never played any games over any of them though. I was too young, stupid and broke. ;D

Aren't there a couple others? Or are you referring to the old ones that are still active?
I know Total Annihilation can still be played online using a couple services.

they came with the later creative lab cds
look on the sound blaster drivers thread...

Iirc TEN is also on the Total Annihilation cd set 😉
I actually still play TA from time to time 😀

FUCK TEN ELEVEN RULEZ

leileilol wrote:

They're all relics. The last men standing are GameSpy and Battle.net 😀

Kali.net is up and running too, and the only one I know of that still allows to host old IPX-based games through Internet's TCP/IP.

forget TEN... DWANGO FTW!!!! 😁

I still have all of the WADs... some are hard to find now

Hehe, anyone remember Epic Megagames old long-distance dialup "Challenge Arena" service for One Must Fall: 2097? 😀

Nope, but I remember mlagger...I mean mplayer 😜

Who would pay for kali these days?

How about bt wireplay I still have ef2000 bt wireplay edition

Tetrium wrote:

Nope, but I remember mlagger...I mean mplayer 😜

Yeah Mlagger is putting it nicely. 🤣 I still have my Kali key around somewhere. Used to play alot of Warcraft II on it.

temptingthelure wrote:

Who would pay for kali these days?

Maybe not these days, but if you already have a key, you can still use it, as bushwack said. Not bad for a 16 year old software with lifetime support. You can count yourself lucky if Steam Network or Windows XP activation server don't go offline forever after a shorter period of time.

And it's only $10 anyway. You can also register a limited trial account for 30 days, register another one when it expires, and so on. Cheap and dirty trick, but works.

Maybe I was lucky, because Mplayer never lagged for me, despite being in a very rural area.

Hater Depot wrote:

Maybe I was lucky, because Mplayer never lagged for me, despite being in a very rural area.

Nah, thats because in those days everyone thought 5 to 15fps was awesome! 😜

batracio wrote:

Kali.net is up and running too, and the only one I know of that still allows to host old IPX-based games through Internet's TCP/IP.

Interesting...I still should have a key somewhere 😀. I paid for it a long time ago but only used it a little since I had a very crappy 28.8 back then (28.8 by itself is crappy, but mine was above average crappy, I was lucky if I got 2.0KB/s through it)

I also had a crappy modem back then (33.6 Kbps). I played in Kali.net up to 2004. Half-Life (WON) was unplayable, but Duke Nukem 3D 1on1 DM was fine, even with a terrible ping (~400 ms).

All I mostly remember my online gaming time those days was Subspace*, BattleCity *, Warheads, netWAR, ARC*, Wizwar!, Tanarus*, Wulfram*, ROTT, Duke3D and of course Quake*.

* = Still alive in some form

However I only had dial-up then. I wish someone had a super connection to archive the late '90s internets, especially all those public FTPs like gamehead 🙁
Maybe when the hadron thing is done and does time travel, Alexa can do something about it 🤣

leileilol wrote:

All I mostly remember my online gaming time those days was Subspace*, BattleCity *, Warheads, netWAR, ARC*, Wizwar!, Tanarus*, Wulfram*, ROTT, Duke3D and of course Quake*.

Ah, good ol' Subspace.