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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Does messing around to play Red Alert at 640 x 480 (instead of the default 320 x 240) qualify? I emphasize that I modded the thing to have ICBM carrying submarines for more realism, and played global thermonuclear war with my university course mate over an RS-232 cable. :P

(We could not afford Ethernet, or maybe couldn't understand it, since it was such a new thing. I recall seeing shiny Ethernet cards from 3COM with some envy.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

a nullmodem is what we had too! I remember copying over Warcraft 1 from one computer to the other over most of a day, and it then not working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Speaking of nuclear war, did you play this game:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(video_game)

It was hilarious! Gandhi was launching nukes before Civ 1!