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PvPGN
PvPGN (Player vs Player Gaming Network) is a free and open source software project offering emulation of various gaming network servers. It is published under the GPL and based upon bnetd. It supports most features for Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net "classic" games (''Diablo'', ''Diablo II'', '' Diablo II: Lord of Destruction'', ''StarCraft'', '' StarCraft: Brood War'', '' Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition'', '' Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos'', '' Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne''). It also offers basic support for Westwood Online clients ('' Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun'', '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'', '' Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge''). Westwood support is still at an experimental state. Typical uses A PvPGN Server can be used: *When wanting to host a local tournament with local users and ladders. *When wanting to maintain a local community of friends rather than playing on Battle.net. *For people who want to play on a LAN but with Battle.net-like statist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bnetd
bnetd is a communication app that enables users of the online game StarCraft (and StarCraft: Brood War) released on March 31, 1998 to connect and chat together. Bnetd was released on April 28, 1998 under the name ''StarHack'' and provided near-complete emulation of the original online multiplayer gaming service network. This was accomplished through reverse engineering of the corporate Blizzard Entertainment's Battle.net. Due to a lawsuit in 2002, United States that Blizzard won against bnetd's original developers, they no longer maintain or host bnetd. Background The online game StarCraft was released on March 31, 1998, and required the online multiplayer gaming service network Battle.net. The near-complete emulation of this network was released with the first version of bnetd on April 28, 1998 by Mark Baysinger, who at the time was a student at UC San Diego, under the name ''StarHack'' because it was originally meant for StarCraft to connect and chat together. On April 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross-platform
In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software requires a separate build for each platform, but some can be directly run on any platform without special preparation, being written in an interpreted language or compiled to portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all supported platforms. For example, a cross-platform application may run on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS. Cross-platform software may run on many platforms, or as few as two. Some frameworks for cross-platform development are Codename One, Kivy, Qt, Flutter, NativeScript, Xamarin, Phonegap, Ionic, and React Native. Platforms ''Platform'' can refer to the type of processor (CPU) or other hardware on which an operating system (OS) or applicatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westwood Studios
Westwood Studios, Inc. was an American video game developer, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded by Brett Sperry and Louis Castle in 1985 as Brelous Software, but got changed after 2 months into Westwood Associates and was renamed to Westwood Studios when Virgin Games (later Virgin Interactive Entertainment) bought the company in 1992. The company was bought by Electronic Arts alongside Virgin Interactive's North American operations in 1998. In January 2003, it was announced that Westwood, alongside Westwood Pacific (EA Pacific), would be merged into EA Los Angeles. The main studio location closed in March of that year. Westwood is best known for developing video games in the real-time strategy, adventure and role-playing genres. It was listed in ''Guinness World Records'' for selling more than 10 million copies of '' Command & Conquer'' worldwide. History Early history and company name Brett Sperry and Louis Castle met in late 1983 in Las Vegas. Sperry had a ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular open-source BSD operating system, accounting for more than three-quarters of all installed and permissively licensed BSD systems. FreeBSD has similarities with Linux, with two major differences in scope and licensing: FreeBSD maintains a complete system, i.e. the project delivers a kernel, device drivers, userland utilities, and documentation, as opposed to Linux only delivering a kernel and drivers, and relying on third-parties for system software; FreeBSD source code is generally released under a permissive BSD license, as opposed to the copyleft GPL used by Linux. The FreeBSD project includes a security team overseeing all software shipped in the base distribution. A wide range of additional third-party applications may be inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BeOS
BeOS is an operating system for personal computers first developed by Be Inc. in 1990. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform that could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Classic Mac OS and Microsoft Windows. It was ultimately unable to achieve a significant market share, and did not prove commercially viable for Be Inc. The company was acquired by Palm Inc. Today BeOS is mainly used, and derivatives developed, by a small population of enthusiasts. The open-source operating system Haiku is a continuation of BeOS concepts and most of the application level compatibility. The latest version, Beta 4 released December 2022, still retains BeOS 5 compatibility in its x86 32-bit images. History Initially designed to run on AT&T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Computer's PowerPC Reference Platform and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle For Dune
A battle is an occurrence of combat in warfare between opposing military units of any number or size. A war usually consists of multiple battles. In general, a battle is a military engagement that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment. An engagement with only limited commitment between the forces and without decisive results is sometimes called a skirmish. The word "battle" can also be used infrequently to refer to an entire operational campaign, although this usage greatly diverges from its conventional or customary meaning. Generally, the word "battle" is used for such campaigns if referring to a protracted combat encounter in which either one or both of the combatants had the same methods, resources, and strategic objectives throughout the encounter. Some prominent examples of this would be the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and Battle of Stalingrad, all in World War II. Wars and military campaigns are guided by military strategy, whereas bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dune 2000
''Dune 2000'' is a real-time strategy video game, developed by Intelligent Games and released by Westwood Studios in 1998 for Microsoft Windows. It was later ported to the PlayStation in 1999. It is a partial remake of ''Dune II'', which is loosely based on Frank Herbert's ''Dune'' universe. The story of the game is similar to ''Dune II'', and is continued in '' Emperor: Battle for Dune''. Although ''Dune 2000'' was originally intended to be a remake of ''Dune II'', the plotline differs completely and makes a reference to the execution of Mentat Amon of House Ordos and the replacement of the Harkonnen Mentat from ''Dune II'', Radnor, by Hayt De Vries. The story is told with full motion video. Gameplay The player commands of one of three Houses and must fight for control of the spice mélange on the planet Arrakis. The player harvests spice for 'solaris', the in-game currency, and uses the solaris to make units to supply their forces. Dune 2000 features an interface and gamepla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nox (video Game)
''Nox'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by Westwood Studios and Electronic Arts in 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It details the story of Jack, a young man from Earth who is pulled into a high fantasy parallel universe and has to defeat the evil sorceress Hecubah and her army of necromancers to return home. Depending on the player's choice of character class at the beginning of the game (warrior, conjurer, or wizard), the game follows three largely different linear storylines, each leading to its unique ending. In the multiplayer, players can compete against each other in various game modes such as deathmatch and capture the flag, while the freely downloadable expansion pack ''NoxQuest'' added a cooperative multiplayer mode. The game was generally well received by critics and the media. Gameplay The player controls Jack from oblique perspective with the mouse and a number of pre-defined hotkeys. The line of sight is limited by an innovative and well-receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegade
Renegade or The Renegade may refer to: Aircraft *Lake Renegade, an American amphibious aircraft design *Murphy Renegade, a Canadian ultralight biplane design *Southern Aeronautical Renegade, an American racing aircraft design Games *'' Command & Conquer: Renegade'', a 2002 first-person shooter video game * ''Renegade'' (video game), a 1986 video game *''Renegade Legion'', a 1990 board game series including the video game '' Renegade: the Battle for Jacob's Star'' *Renegade Software, a games publisher of the 1990s *'' Jak II: Renegade'', the second game in the Jak and Daxter series *Renegade points, a type of scoring/level system in the game series ''Mass Effect'' Literature *''Renegade'', a 1989 novel by Cordell Scotten in the '' Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens'' series * "The Renegade" (short story), a 1957 short story by Albert Camus * "The Renegade" (poem), a poem by David Diop Music *Renegade (band), an American rock band, also referred to throughout Latin America as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri's Revenge
''Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge'' is an expansion pack to '' Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2'' developed by Westwood Studios. The game was released in North America on October 10, 2001"Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge for PC – Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge PC Game" . Retrieved March 28, 2010. by . The game is centered on a shadowy ex-Soviet figure named Yuri who has established a secret army of his own and poses a threat to the free will of the world. Plot< ...
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Red Alert
Red Alert or red alert may refer to: Alert states * Red alert, a high alert state * Red Alert, the "attack imminent" alert signal for the US civil defense siren * Red alert state, the most serious alert state in the UK BIKINI state system * Red code alert, a code of the London Underground code alert Film and television * ''Red Alert'' (film), a 1977 TV film *'' Red Alert: The War Within'', a 2010 Indian film * ''Red Alert'' (game show), a British TV game show *''Red Alert'', TV programs in the ''Pinoy True Stories'' series Gaming * ''Red Alert'' (arcade game) *''Last Alert'', a 1989 shoot 'em up game known as ''Red Alert'' in Europe and Japan * ''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' (series), a series of real-time strategy video games :*'' Command & Conquer: Red Alert'', the first game in the series * Red Alert (''Transformers''), several characters in Transformers series Music * Red Alert (band), a British band formed in 1979 Albums * ''Red Alert'' (Agent 51 album) (1998) * ''Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Command & Conquer (1995 Video Game)
''Command & Conquer'' (also known by the retronym ''Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn'') is a real-time strategy video game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995. Set in an alternate history, the game tells the story of a world war between two globalized factions: the Global Defense Initiative of the United Nations and a cult-like militant organization called the Brotherhood of Nod, led by the mysterious Kane. The groups compete for control of Tiberium, a mysterious substance that slowly spreads across the world. Westwood conceived ''Command & Conquer'' during the final stages of the development of '' Dune II'', and it expands on ideas explored in that title. Inspired by the events of the era, particularly the Gulf War, the team gave the game a modern warfare setting. The game contains live-action full motion video cutscenes, which star Westwood employees and a single professional actor, Joseph D. Kucan, who plays Kane. The Nintendo 64 port w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
