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Sunk a lot of my childhood into AoK. I come back to it every now and then for a bit of nostalgia. I remember downloading the demo - a whopping ~60mb. I had to
by jwdunne 8y ago
Sunk a lot of my childhood into AoK. I come back to it every now and then for a bit of nostalgia.
I remember downloading the demo - a whopping ~60mb. I had to start the download in the morning, went out for a bit and prayed to god that the 56k didn't cut out or my mum didn't use the phone.
I even remember the demo had online capability on MSN. Nine year old me didn't get the point of death match. I tried building as usual in the middle of the map instead of rushing for a corner.
I remember another time me and another player decided to lay down arms and just build. That was fun. I was looking for a SimCity or Caesar III in AoE.
So much fun. I'm glad people feel the same enough to invest so much time in something like this.
- ipnon 8y agoWhy couldn't 56k modems handle dropped connections?
- pixl97 8y agoMost file transfers at the time would have to start from the beginning if you dropped. This sucked when it took 10+ hours to download a file that size.
- lathiat 8y agoProps to my old friend, GetRight download manager
- Topgamer7 8y agoBrings me back to the days of hopping from download manager to download manager when one added undesired features, or stopped working. I recall using flashget. Which I liked if I recall because you could have multiple connections download the same url. Which got around per connection qos. And showed you nice tiles of progress. Also supported resume, was great for the old days of slow connections :)
- therein 8y agoHow about Internet Download Manager or FlashGet. Thinking about these things take me back. :) https://i.imgur.com/Imc5Lgp.gif https://i.imgur.com/Imc5Lgp.gif
- jwdunne 8y agoI was using an old version of IE and the download would just fail without option to resume. If there was a way, my 9 year old self never figured it out.
- jandrese 8y agoThe modem wouldn't care, but the primitive file transfer applications of the time couldn't handle it. ZModem supported resume, but early Internet browsers and ftp clients usually didn't implement the feature.
- n-gate 8y agoI remember 37 mb