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Web Server for AoE 1, 2 and 3 DE supporting LAN multiplayer 100% offline

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442 points apitman | 5 comments | 02 Apr 25 23:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.725s | source
1. CursedSilicon ◴[03 Apr 25 03:43 UTC] No.43564483[source]▶
Does anything like this exist for the original Age of Empires games?

Battle.Net has "PVPGN" that covers Diablo 2 up through Warcraft 3, and the Westwood Online games (ish) but searching for an AoE equivalent turned up nothing

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2. lightingthedark ◴[03 Apr 25 03:49 UTC] No.43564530[source]▶
I believe the originals just supported offline LAN play. I remember getting my friend to have his modem dial my modem so we could play together, no Internet connection required.
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3. red_admiral ◴[03 Apr 25 09:12 UTC] No.43566965[source]▶
From memory, there was a patch that added a new-fangled option "internet" as well as LAN play. I remember the days of fiddling with port forwarding and then calling a friend over the telephone to read out my IP address for them to type in.
4. matsemann ◴[03 Apr 25 10:19 UTC] No.43567468[source]▶
I've LANed them "online" many moons ago by using software that made a virtual lan that we all installed and managed to find each other ingame. "Hamachi" I think?
5. apitman ◴[03 Apr 25 17:04 UTC] No.43572570[source]▶
Check out Voobly. That seems to be a pretty big hub for people playing the original games, I think mostly patched versions of the originals with some nice features.