I definitely own Diablo and I definitely used Win2K, but I didn’t go out of my way to buy a weird special version of it. This leads me to believe the normal Windows 95 version would work on NT as well.
So he couldn’t have been younger than 15 at the game’s release (and could have been as old as 25).
That being said, that game came out a quarter-century ago, and there are people in the workforce who won’t have been born when it was released. Can’t just assume any more.
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Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
And there I was playing The Manhole. :)
Yes!! It’ll be fully like being back in the year 2000, widely known as “The DOS days”
If it was before XP, it was all DOS underneath.
Me, a Windows 2000 user:
I bet you had that Windows NT disc version of Diablo 1 too, you pervert.
I definitely own Diablo and I definitely used Win2K, but I didn’t go out of my way to buy a weird special version of it. This leads me to believe the normal Windows 95 version would work on NT as well.
I was joking but now I’m wondering if it was just a label change, huh.
I ran loads of normal (Windows 9x) games on Windows 2000 Pro.
XP? The bloated offspring of Windows 2000?
To be fair, Red Alert came out in 1996 and was available for DOS.
Red Alert 2, not so much. DOS ports fell off hard by about '98, so this headline is weird.
Arstechnica writers have the technological knowledge of a parakeet.
I was gonna say that he might simply not have been around when Red Alert 2 came out, but
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Samuel-Sott-Axon/Los-Angeles-CA/Pl8a1drMk8b
So he’s gotta be born no later than 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2
So he couldn’t have been younger than 15 at the game’s release (and could have been as old as 25).
That being said, that game came out a quarter-century ago, and there are people in the workforce who won’t have been born when it was released. Can’t just assume any more.
Parakeets typically understand how to get what they want out of a shell.