Bitter sweet because I’m pretty sure this means we lost real one. RIP
It’s church thrift store run by elderly people and they get overwhelmed and will just toss anything on a whim. They practically give away the stuff they do sell.
The others that were piled up in the bottom of the box. Some of the discs had fallen out of the cases and sleeves but they all seemed fine except for one: Half-Life GOTY disc got a few tiny fatal cracks. A lot of software and bargain bin games have been excluded.
There were two discs that go with two joysticks I have. I have a sidewinder somewhere but couldn’t bother looking for it for the pic.
Can any of these be played as it today? I wonder if there is DRM that is obsolete.
The Half Life GOTYE can probably be installed and played no problem. The CD key is probably already bound to a Steam account, otherwise that’d be another way to play it and easily have all the updates.
Starcraft/Brood War and Warcraft are all still playable as far as I’m aware. ActiBlizz hadn’t killed off old school Battlenet last I’d checked. Private servers are also still a thing for classic blizzard games. Same goes for C&C. Private servers a’plenty. PVPGN was still the thing for Blizz games (up to a certain patch because they changed some server side stuff) and Westwood Online games. There’s also a separate project specifically for Red Alert games whose name escapes me. Also the OpenRA project.
The last flight sim I played was Red Baron II/3D, back in the Sierra Online and MPlayer days (pre GameSpy Arcade), but I’m familiar with IL2. Been a few years since I checked in on it but it had a fairly active player base and modding community. VFWs (Virtual Fighter Wings) were a thing in that and in Microprose’s Falcon 4.0 where some players took it very seriously and were quite skilled at formation flying and such. I still have my copy of Falcon 4.0, 3 ring binder manual, map and all. Wasn’t good at it but I was always amazed at how technical it was.
Baldur’s Gate 2 should still run. Same for the original and Icewind Dale, if they’re hiding in the box somewhere. I installed those from CD a while back and they worked fine.
I should probably try in my Deck next. Dollars to donuts I bet they’d work - I’ve installed other games on it from CD just for shiggles. Truth be told, Linux is probably preferable for a lot of older games since a lot of work has gone into wine/proton explicitly for compatibility. A lot of really old Windows games, that are unplayable on Windows today, run amazing on Linux.
Guild Wars: Factions can still be played, if the cd key hasn’t been added to another account.
The Star Wars Galaxies cds can be used to get started with SWGEmu, too.
no way. I thought all the GW servers had been shutdown.
Its in active development. We got a content update last month
And playable on Steam Deck and mobile too!