CMN was the first and official way of playing 1nsane online with others. It was announced by Codemasters (Codemasters multiplayer network) in november 2000.
CMN announcement
CMN servers were later shut down because of funding issues in 2003
* OLD CMN News Patches & Ratings Info *
It’s Official CMN Has Closed Down
Subject: Reply from Codemasters ref:00270306 Date sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:07:30 +0100
The server has now closed down permanently
CMN Down Again
since around 00.05 on the morning of 11/07/2003 for how long nobody knows
Update 16:45 11/07/03 A message from Codies
Due to server problems, the server has been online for a while now. However, it will be shut down very soon.
Once the server problems have been recified, it will be down permanently
CMN IS BACK ONLINE
Yep for some strange reason its back up 15/05/2003 at 11.30am UK time GMT
so if you have un-installed CMN as I did then its time to dig out that disk & Re-install
To re-install CMN
Make sure you un-install CMN then manually delete the CMN folder then re-boot
Go to the CMN folder on your Insane CD then from there run the setup.exe after re-booting install the CMN patches
If you still have problems completely un-install Insane & CMN then re-boot & re-install Insane & CMN
(Don’t forget to reboot and install both the game and CMN Patches)
CMN Closed
It is with much regret that Codemasters announce that the CMN service will cease to be operational from 1st May 2003
Well the time finally came on the 01/05/2003 at 11:45am UK time GMT.
Remember CMN might have gone down the pan but Insane will go on Via Gamespy
Important: CMN Closure
It is with much regret that Codemasters announce that the CMN service will cease to be operational from 1st May 2003
The small number of players, particularly new ones, who use CMN, and the attractiveness of other third party services, such as
Gamespy means that it is no longer operationally viable. We have endeavoured to keep the service open, despite increasing costs,
for some time now without player numbers really supporting this position. Unfortunately to continue to do so is no longer possible.
We do sincerely thank everyone for their support of Insane and hope that the community remains as active as it currently is.
Our Insane forum here will remain open and available for anyone wishing to organise an online game amongst themselves.
You can, of course, also play the game via Gamespy www.gamespy.com
The GameSpy era. 2002-2014
Gamespy was a great system for hosting and joining 1nsane multiplayer sessions, there was a great number of people who used their service until the shutdown in 2014. Unfortunately, since then, no real platform has been invented for playing 1nsane online easily.