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Memories from old LAN parties

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Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by 0dayz »

prox wrote: post #114
mesh wrote: post #66

So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s. I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video games and lan parties as part of my job. I was responsible for the Flash community at Macromedia, and we would set up 4 xboxes with split screen for 8 player Halo 2 and 3 tournaments in conference rooms (which has multiple plasma screens already set up). I quic…

I miss Macromedia, Adobe is just a corporate grey blob. Macromedia had character and good products.

And created tech that blew anything else out of the water

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Post by swah »

totallywrong wrote: post #86
pluc wrote: post #9

I remember writing a tool that blared a siren wav every time someone connected to your network share. It would be quiet at the start of a round, and then as people died you'd hear sirens going off left and right. Remains one of the few contexts where nerds would do drugs. Speed mostly. You ever played Quake with a bunch of dudes on speed? It's fucking nuts. The smells. Some LANs would go on for a week. Lots spanned s…

> that annoying Windows service that let you send pop-up messages to any IP Winpopup. I loved that tool, showed it to my entire class in school so we could comfortably cheat during exams. I was hailed as a super hacker with mad skills.

Same. I think it was the most impressive thing I did at school. I guess someone somewhere still uses it... http://winpopup-lan-messenger.com/

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by pluc »

thefz wrote: post #145

> Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted Wasn't that Virtual Clone drive? As far as I remember Alcohol was for burning ISOs.

I think Daemon-Tools is still around

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by swah »

eerikkivistik wrote: post #113

Me and some friends host a pretty weird event, the name of which loosely translates to "Field Lan". We set up tents, generators and an antenna in the middle of a field in Estonia and compete in various games for 72 hours straight on an open field in fresh air. We sleep in tents. Its a private event once a year, but we have 30 - 50 people there every year. Next year is the 10th year we do this.

So thats still a local network or just normal internet?

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by IntelMiner »

thefz wrote: post #145

> Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted Wasn't that Virtual Clone drive? As far as I remember Alcohol was for burning ISOs.

Virtual CloneDrive is extremely under-appreciated both then and now. Most retro hobbyists use an ancient version of DaemonTools instead

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by mike_hock »

eru wrote: post #85
mesh wrote: post #66

So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s. I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video games and lan parties as part of my job. I was responsible for the Flash community at Macromedia, and we would set up 4 xboxes with split screen for 8 player Halo 2 and 3 tournaments in conference rooms (which has multiple plasma screens already set up). I quic…

When did you sleep?

When what?
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