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Longest than that. We were doing lan parties when I was in college - '95 or so. Some Doom, a lot of Marathon in the Mac lab, and Quake a little later. This som
by dgacmu 6y ago
Longest than that. We were doing lan parties when I was in college - '95 or so. Some Doom, a lot of Marathon in the Mac lab, and Quake a little later.
This sometimes involved hauling our PCs and (large CRT) monitors over to one person's house. And sometimes commandeering the computer labs at school.
- 83457 6y agoOh that's still a thing
- willmacdonald 6y agoI remember doing that with RS-232 connections and Doom 1.
- antod 6y agoYup. It had to be a null modem cable rather than a standard serial cable. They were the equivalent of a cross over ethernet cable. Later on we had the fun of figuring out IPX/SPX network drivers on DOS over 10base2 to get a 4 player game going.
- jinglebells 6y agohaha, oh god the twisted pair coax and "can everyone come out and COMIT again"! Man, those were good times!
- boraoztunc 6y agoReally missed that LAN parties, it was something small but so much valuable. Our first addictions was Half-life (got stuck in Stalkyard for months) and AoE. I'm still playing Command & Conquer. Also found Red Alert mac version recently, can't wait to rock n roll with Tanya.
- tasogare 6y agoC&C and Red Alert remastered are great. For free alternative OpenRA with dockerized self-hosted server. Last time I did it code build from master without issue.
- croh 6y agoI miss CounterStrike
- 83457 6y agoAnd it misses you. Check out CSGO. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJu4laFGTs&t=5440 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJu4laFGTs&t=5440
- TomVDB 6y agoI fondly remember xpilot(1) combats at my university. Must have been around 1992? We'd go to dinner together at 7pm and then descend into the basement of the electronics department to room full of HP Apollo 9000 workstations with gigantic monitors and an unreal resolution (1280x1024!!!) Sometimes we'd play until 7am in the morning when the first students would come in to start working on their assignments, our hands completely cramped from pressing the right keyboard combinations to engage the ECM of our ships. (1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPilot
- jwr 6y agoYeah, done that. Using Arcnet. Which BTW, even though already then obsolete and slow, was way better for ad-hoc gaming setups than coax ethernet, because it had a hub-and spokes setup. Much more reliable than fiddling with coax ethernet and its terminators.