[ultimaIX]

hehe, i'd love to play some d1 w/ you guys - i haven't played that one in forever. (i have it installed, but never got around to playing it again) It'd be great to play hellfire multiplayer as well - if you guys know how to get it to work, and fill me in, i'll install it as well. (it's been so long since i played hellfire, i can barely remember all the stuff it includes!)

and yeah, since d2 is simply a re-hashed version of d1 (only differences are higher resolution and more items / characters) the system reqs for d2 are so similar to d1 that almost no one plays it. that was always one of my biggest complaints about d2 - i really wish bliz had taken the time to update the engine a bit more - the graphics and interface were dated when it was released. Not to mention that d1 was the first battle.net game released by bliz, so it's about as basic as you can get. although you gotta love the "spawn" install option - how cool was that? too bad companies don't offer things like that anymore! (only game i can think of that does that still is sins of a solar empire - and that's not a spawn install, it just doesn't require the cd to play - no copy protection = easy to share w/ friends and get them to buy!)