"Market" for old macs?

Teo Zenios teoz at neo.rr.com
Mon Dec 5 01:11:57 CST 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Leonard" <trixter at oldskool.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: "Market" for old macs?


> woodelf wrote:
> > The problem is what happens 10 or 15 years down the road, when the
> > company that
> > made the game is toast, or the websites gone bye bye?  Also you can't
>
> How about 15 months?  That's what happened to Alien Front Online, a
Dreamcast
> game that used SegaNet to connect players to each other for online play.
15
> months after the game's release, Sega closes SegaNet and bingo, no more
online
> play (along with 99% of all the other Dreamcast online games).
>
> Yet another reason I won't spend money on a game I can't play completely
> disconnected from the 'net.
> -- 
>

Did anybody figure out a way to get around seganet so these games can be
hosted some other place?



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