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apitman 78 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenRA

When it worked, IPX LAN was maybe the peak UX in multiplayer gaming.

Moving everything to TCP/IP came with a lot of improvements, but we also lost important things. Reminds me of the move from Flash to HTML5.

minitoar 78 days ago [–]

I was using ipx over hamachi for multiplayer c&c as recently as 15 years ago!

shmoe 78 days ago | [–]

Hamachi is what I always bring up when explaining tailscale :P

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