peter94707
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12 years ago
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on: The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)
Actually, I _loved_ netrek... it was an inspiration! It was more RTS than flight sim tho. But it was quite possibly the first MMO as well! I never played it over a modem, tho, just on a LAN... which is definitely not the same thing as a 28K internet connection circa 1999. But that game was genius, and quite possibly _would_ have worked over slow, lossy and highly latent connections, I never tried it.
peter94707
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12 years ago
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on: The Internet Sucks: Or, What I Learned Coding X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter (1999)
LOL! I wrote that for a presentation at the Game Developers Conference way back when. It was really a post-mortem, where the point is to show others what mistakes we made so that they wont repeat them. Anyway, its kind of flattering to see it come to life again... like some kind of Frankenstein internet cat. Thanks to all the positive commenters, and all you haters can fall into a timewarp and have to suffer through 28K modem hell all over again. ;) Or worse yet, be forced to watch Titanic...
