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smurf_king
Joined: 07 Mar 2009
Posts: 4366
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if 3 people are playing it why would a tech savvy dude be required to test it _________________ http://phoenixtears.ca/
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Thu Oct 23, 2014 8:32 pm |
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terror-kahn
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Posts: 4005
Location: Savannah, GA |
i made a username and typed "join". not working. im assuming there is a download or something im missing _________________
<----------- WAR2 TRAINING VIDEOS ----------->
http://www.youtube.com/ClanAbsoluteSynergy
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terror-kahn
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
Posts: 4005
Location: Savannah, GA |
i downloaded all of it and im in the chat with the players... none of them are talking tho.
13 people in there right now but nobody has said a word =/ _________________
<----------- WAR2 TRAINING VIDEOS ----------->
http://www.youtube.com/ClanAbsoluteSynergy
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Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:26 am |
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test
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
Posts: 230
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I'll check it out, it would be rather amusing if there were some sort of hidden War2 community hiding over there lol.
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Fri Oct 24, 2014 4:52 pm |
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test
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
Posts: 230
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Well, I checked it out and it's ok but I dont know how well it would work. It does NOT create an IPX network. Instead it creates a VPN. You can see your VPN IP in the bottom left corner of the client window.
I saw Ganz logged in but he was ignoring me lol. So since it's a VPN, you will need either the IPXWrapper app which I linked in the other thread, or Dosbox. Either would work. You can also use TCP/Con for using the "Direct connect" via serial which only allows 1v1. Since it uses VPN, I would not expect the latency to be that great. Kali would probably be a better option still over both voobly and anything else. I dont know what the community on Kali is like, but I suspect its probably non-existent which defeats the purpose of finding new players. It would however solve hosting issues.
Heres a video on someone using Kali in 2013.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF4a8KJgYgM&index=4&list=PLD35DE062382DC86A
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Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:33 pm |
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Fast Luck
Joined: 11 Oct 2001
Posts: 22805
Location: Penis |
is kali free now _________________ i zero bagged your mother
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Originally posted by Fast Luck
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dreamin bout wayne from catalina wine mixers
listen little friend stay outta the deep end
cuz you're less street than vampire weekend
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Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:41 pm |
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test
Joined: 14 Oct 2005
Posts: 230
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No, it's still $10. But the free trial is 30 days long and you can keep re-registering as many times as you want but it's a pain.
BTW, this is an example of a site that has integrated Dosbox into it's service.
http://www.freegameempire.com/search-old-games/keywords-warcraft/by-relevance
Click on the War2 link and it will present you with a couple options to "play" the game. Use the "Play NOW! .NET" version as the "ClickOnce" thing didnt work at all for me.
It's the old War2, 188MB DL, but it does work. There were no games running of course when I tried it, but it does indeed work just fine. I replaced the DL'd war2 with the RU version and it worked as well but I did have to rename a lot of files to get it to fire up. It would be easier to just send them the RU installer and have them add it to their service the correct way rather than jerry rig it like I did to test it. Someone could probably convince them to replace the old war2 version with RU's version or perhaps add another entry for it in case there are players that like to play with the lumber bug and no shared vision, etc.
The other thing to note is that it also uses Dosbox to actually play the war2 game (which isnt actually necessary but hey it fixed the color problem lol). This means it's being emulated and not played directly on the OS like we do now. The colors are not all fuxored up which I found interesting.
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Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:44 pm |
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