Re: A Nostalgic Ramble: Online gaming services of yore

On Fri, 16 May 2025 09:07:39 -0400, Mike S. <Mike_S@nowhere.com>
wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 2025 19:06:19 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>

Did any of you ever use these services (assuming you were gaming back
then?) Or did you avoid them because of the cost, or for other
reasons?
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I don't recognize any of the services you mention other than Gamespy.
The only app I used to play games with my friends back in the day was
a free piece of software called Hamachi.

I remember using Hamachi but I can't actually recall anymore what it
did. I remember it was a free alternative to some other service
though.



(Heh. I have v1.0.0.62 stashed away on my hard-drive, complete with a
descriptive text file, dated November 2006.

"Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private networking (VPN)
application. In other words Hamachi is a program that allows you to
arrange multiple computers into their own secure network just as if
they were connected by a physical network cable."

I think I used it for a while to give myself access to my network
shares while on the road. Apparently it was eventually bought out by
LogMeIn

I'm halfway tempted to see if it still works :-)