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Memories from old LAN parties
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#52I did LAN parties in the early '90s when a bunch of BBS nerds would show up at a local pizza joint cradling Mac LCs, IIsi's, and Powerbooks, bust out some PhoneNet connectors and play some intense Bolo [0] or Spaceward Ho [1] games. Later, Spectre [2], Marathon [3]
Maybe someone would demo some app they were working on in MPW or Think C, or demo a funny postage stamp-sized quicktime (new video format) of an exploding whale or dumb Dan Quayle quotes.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(1987_video_game)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceward_Ho!
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(1991_video_game)
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)Re: Memories from old LAN parties
#53There's a new book coming called LAN Party, funded and in production:
A loving photographic celebration of the energy-drink-fuelled, furniture-rearranging, multiplayer gaming trend and its nocturnal participants
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#54Re: Memories from old LAN parties
#55> If someone has shared their installation of Warcraft III over SMB it will run much faster if you copy it to your local machine first rather than execute it directly from the network folder. This one made me laugh. I'm really surprised it started that way at all. I think my LAN party time was a little later than most of what the author is describing (mostly Windows XP era), but I also remember the networking problem…
It's 2011. You have 8 Steam accounts with Civilization V. Coronas are coming out the fridge. It's 4:30pm. Someone shows up with a macOS device. The first turn began at 8:05pm. You know the deadline is at 3am, because that's when they do last call at the Korean BBQ place that one of the guys looks forward to all night. There's only diplomacy rule: "No alien governors," you can't just walk over to some amateur's screen and fix everything wrong with their civ.
It's 2pm, October 18th, 2004. You have a hacked Xbox and the leak of French Halo 2. The line to play at the Holiday Inn for DECA State wraps around the hallway. A second hacked Xbox materializes. You play the first 8 player game at 2am.
It's the basement of the collectibles shop in 1999. You're hiding behind a plant in Zaphod's Estate. Someone notices you and you die instantly. It's still only 5pm. The 8 player match of Broodwar is 15 minutes in. Your beautiful base patrolled by battleships, it's untouched. You're 8 years old. Someone who is actually good is eliminated, and takes over your screen.
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#56Token ring coax cabling with a terminator at the end
DOS, Windows
Quake 3 arena, Descent, Warcraft 2, Unreal Tournament
94-98
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#57>A LAN isn’t legitimate unless at least one person has to reinstall Windows along the way. Never a truer phrase spoken.
Still dont know how it managed to work, but my buddy had an XP box that he was gonna use for our lan party, but it went sideways. The only thing i had was a win 2k cd. We repaired using the 2k cd, got the system up, in a really fubar hybrid mode, where parts of the system acted like XP, and other parts acted like 2k
Do you remember what parts acted like what?
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found these Coolermaster straps that enabled you to carry your CRT and tower with a handle. SO SO SO useful for lan parties.
These case straps were common too!: https://imgur.com/j41ZhIn
A lot of people also got into case modding and added physical LAN handles to their rigs (always called "The Beast"; along with Perspex and cathode tubes https://tinyurl.com/LANhandles ). Good times :')
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#59Summer of college, working as a temp at a soulless company where all I did, all day long, was call doctors and ask if they still took a certain insurance.
Someone brought a cracked version of Quake to work one day and we all stayed late playing. Even the boss got into it - LAN parties were always amazing but going from call center temp job -> LAN party was like going from the lowest low to highest high.
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#60Lol, there is actually a 'gaming zone' (commercial space set up for LAN parties) still operating in Sunnyvale. I had a shuttle PC that I used for LAN parties and would re-image the disk when I got home.