The games :
- Red Alert 2
- Half Life 2: Deathmatch
- Quake 3
- Unreal Tournament
- Quake 2
- Doom
- Transport Tycoon
No Microsoft Ants, though. :(
Ah yes, my favorite DOS games, Red Alert and Unreal Tournament.
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
40s Age Range
So he’s gotta be born no later than 1985.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Red_Alert_2
Release: NA: October 25, 2000
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.
ITT: People who don’t know that Windows 95-98 and Windows ME were gui front-ends for a DOS kernel.
Most games of this era wouldn’t run on Windows 2000, the first consumer Windows OS not built on DOS.
I never encountered a single Windows 9x game that wouldn’t run on Windows 2000 Pro. It was my primary OS in 2003 or so, having moved from Windows 98 SE.
ME was the only consumer release in 2000.
2000 was the direct successor to NT4 and was specifically targeting the business market. It was available in Pro, Server, Adv Server, and Datacenter editions. I would not call it a consumer Windows OS.
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I distinctly remember running most, if not all, of my games on Windows 2000 (not ME). I mean, yeah, NT 4 was pretty hopeless for gaming, but 2000 was better.
Windows was built on IBM compatible MS-DOS, not regular DOS. The term “DOS” was so ubiquitous with IBM compatibility specifically, that it almost exclusively referred to MS-DOS, and not any other variant. Windows 95 does not run on top of Atari DOS, for example, and therefore trying to run any Windows 95 application in Atari DOS would not be possible.
Software natively compiled for Windows 95 will not usually run in any other variant of DOS than MS-DOS, and in some cases, even MS-DOS itself.
Quake II released in 1997 natively for Windows 95, but was not compatible with other DOS based operating systems at the time. Over the years, fans have tried to “backport” it to other variants of DOS, most notably Q2DOS. But its original PC release does not natively support any OS other than Windows 95. Many games of this era are like this, and a game released in this era usually said it was compatible with “Windows 95/98/ME,” not “DOS.”
