Diablo Multiplayer

[jwmcfarlin]

Heh. Installed the old gaming legend on my PB1400 and called up my friend. He said "Uh, I don't think Battle.Net is still up."

Heheheh.

But a real challenge would be running Diablo on a PB1400, another machine running it on a Win95 virtual machine, and then finding a way to emulate IPX over TCP/IP--anyone done anything like that?

Best,

John

[Unknown_K]

There are plenty of nice old games that needed a main server to play online, sucks most of those servers are down. Age of Empires used to need microsofts zone.com for multiplayer but people created a client and put up a server and we still play (500+ players on the weekends).

Other games like Tribes and UT which anyone can make a server will be played for ages.

[jwmcfarlin]

You mean Blizzard isn't still hosting Battle.net 15 years after release?! Man, where has the product support gone!?

Best,

John

[~Coxy]

I thought the old battle.net was still up?
Starcraft 1 runs on it, after all, and that game will likely never die.

[Unknown_K]

Starcraft 1 is still huge in S. Korea I think.

[jwmcfarlin]

You're kidding me. Right?

Huh. I guess not. That's too funny. Okay, I have to give this a try now.

Best,

John

[Unknown_K]

Not only are they still into it, but I think there is a bunch of money to be won as well.

[jwmcfarlin]

A friend called me today and said "The Devil's in town!"

So, we fired it up, him running his game on a Windows XP Virtual Machine from a .iso image and me running mine from my PB1400c/250. It worked just fine, though I had to host the game--for some reason it kept timing out if he hosted.

I have to say, it was just as playable now as it was then. The graphics are a little dated, but generally pretty good. Definitely at or near the apex of pixel graphics.

I wonder if there's a hack to get it to play at 800x600. It'd be nice to have a little more real estate in the active window.

Best,

John