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Rebuilding that 90s LAN party experience (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 weeks ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not a single word about Hamachi? What a banger software... Playing LAN games with prople over 1000km away.

Nowadays, there isn't any LAN option in games anymore and most need a full internet connection to even start the game... Luckily there are still people doing the heavylifting allowing pirates games to still work (online-fix) with friends.

Yep I do miss too the old WAN parties :)

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 5 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] witx@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I still do it once a month with a couple of friends albeit we only play older games that allowed LAN connection. It's amazing playing 90s/00s games, StarCraft, Frozen Throne, UT, quake and those goodies