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We used to call these "copy-parties", because not a single person had a network capable computer. It was the late 80ies and besides a demo competition (or two) it was basically copying floppies and playing games with two joy-sticks attached to a single computer.
Not sure if it only started in the Windows XP days, but it's a bad idea to put games in that folder, one of the reasons being that they might not work unless you give them admin access, for instance to be able to write user files in their own folders (and you might want to mess with them too, also consider mods), and giving them admin access is not the best idea.
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Microsoft does something cool for once and it's an accident?
It's neither an accident nor planned mechanism. It had nothing to do with network, the transmission wasn't switching to multicast. Probably the author observed that reading different files from disk simultaneously was slower, until the copy process catches up to read the same files.
Best party I ever attended had someones girlfriend jump onto the table in only brah and thong and yelling at her boyfriend "just stop that and ... me already!" and he looked up "I will but we're in a match right now", my 15 year old mind was blown away on multiple levels. I also met my to this day best friend there, we still laugh about the girlfriend episode once every while to this day.
Best party I ever attended had someones girlfriend jump onto the table in only brah and thong and yelling at her boyfriend "just stop that and ... me already!" and he looked up "I will but we're in a match right now", my 15 year old mind was blown away on multiple levels. I also met my to this day best friend there, we still laugh about the girlfriend episode once every while to this day.
Bloody hell I clearly was going to the wrong lan parties.
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.
Best party I ever attended had someones girlfriend jump onto the table in only brah and thong and yelling at her boyfriend "just stop that and ... me already!" and he looked up "I will but we're in a match right now", my 15 year old mind was blown away on multiple levels. I also met my to this day best friend there, we still laugh about the girlfriend episode once every while to this day.
> There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect. What did I expect? The "warez = trojan" thing is mainly corporate propaganda. Commercial products are just as likely to contain malware. > Alcohol 120% was the free tool of choice to emulate a CD drive for ISOs of games which required the CD to be inserted for copy protection, or rip a CD for…
Bunch of people were sharing cracked games/cracks for games and can't remember which game it was now, but there was quite a popular one. Unfortunately it came with something extra and people were finding their PCs were slowing down to a crawl, blue screening, simply not turning on anymore, etc.