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Zardoz
post Jan 19 2014, 02:29 PM
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Our next big event is on April 12th-13th!.

We're also working on an oldschool gaming event on the weekend of 8th-9th March. QuakeWorld duel etc...

Wrap-up coming soon! Huge thanks to everyone who came and made it something awesome.
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That Commander
post Jan 20 2014, 09:23 PM
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re: old school LAN

I approve of this Product and/or Service smile.gif

My work was throwing away a few Pentium II workstations. Are they too modern? tongue.gif
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post Jan 27 2014, 09:47 AM
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QUOTE (That Commander @ Jan 20 2014, 10:23 PM) *
My work was throwing away a few Pentium II workstations. Are they too modern? tongue.gif


Frankly, that's perfect. So far the other boxes at our disposal are around that age anyway (PII 400MHz, Pentium MMX; Celeron 2.4GHz is the exception).

Pretty sure I sent you a message about this sorta thing thatcommander? smile.gif

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post Jan 28 2014, 09:39 PM
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Out of interest what would you say is the minimum spec'ed pc to use? I have everything from 486-p1-p2-p3-p4 to modern day smile.gif. Would be cool to bust out the 486 for same lannage smile.gif. Suppose it really depends on the list of games.
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post Feb 7 2014, 12:59 PM
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Where are the photos?


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post Feb 11 2014, 08:04 PM
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QUOTE (Lysdexia @ Feb 7 2014, 01:59 PM) *
Where are the photos?


Photos you say? Here's one to start with, the most 'powerful' one (Celeron) :-)



Photos will come of the old laptop and PC when my camera works again LOL
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post Feb 11 2014, 08:09 PM
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QUOTE (xargon @ Jan 28 2014, 10:39 PM) *
Out of interest what would you say is the minimum spec'ed pc to use? I have everything from 486-p1-p2-p3-p4 to modern day smile.gif. Would be cool to bust out the 486 for same lannage smile.gif. Suppose it really depends on the list of games.


I think the balancer would be being able to run Windows 98 & DOS. That way we're balanced across the range.

Games are still TBC as far as I know, but Doom and Duke Nukem have certainly been floated. WCIII is possibly one of the NEWEST games that would count as 'old-school'... And it could work out nicely too.

486's would be DOS-only admittedly, but Pentiums, Cyrix, VIAs and K6-IIs would have no problems with Windows 98 assuming that there is enough RAM.

Interested in putting some specs together for me? I may call on you and your PC power :-)

I'm still trying to get my P4 back (not counting my chances), but P4/Athlon XP were the last ones to run Windows 98 & DOS driver-support wise as far as I know, so I guess that's our benchmark. :-P
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post Feb 13 2014, 09:53 PM
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Just off the top of my head:

Intel 486DX2, 8mb ram. Needs a NIC, I have three spare ISA ones here untested.

Intel Pentium 133Mhz, 128mb ram. Needs NIC and case/psu but I have spare (the yellow wire on the psu for this one is actually blue, never seen that before, old AT psu not ATX).

Intel PII - hmm looks like I might have thrown this one out.

Intel PIII 350Mhz? 256mb ram. Needs NIC I have spare

Intel PIII 1Ghz 256mb ram. Needs NIC I have spare.

AMD skt A/462. Tested two days ago, needs new mobo, eveything else assumed working.

Intel Prescott P4 skt 478, 2.4ghz I think?. 3Gb ram, 6800gt agp smile.gif.

skt 1155 celeron, 8gb - my server

skt AM3+ AMD Phenom 965 Black edition, 8gb ram - main pc


I'd still be keen to play some games on the 486 lol. Need to get another hdd for it, I have a CF card but the BIOS can't see anything larger than 504mb drives and I'm reluctant to lan on the 20yo drive it has in there. I was hoping to burn an eeprom with xtide and install that onto the boot rom of one of the spare ISA network cards I have so I can support larger drives.
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post Feb 14 2014, 12:11 AM
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Photos of v29 you dolt.


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post Feb 18 2014, 02:19 PM
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QUOTE (Lysdexia @ Feb 14 2014, 01:11 AM) *
Photos of v29 you dolt.


No need to call me a dolt! This isn't a 'Respawn v29' post, so I presumed you were talking about the older PCs for the Old School event :-(

The PIIIs look like keepers Xargon, and the Pentium as well if it can be NIC'd.
Send me a private message about them when you have time so we can co-ordinate?

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post Feb 20 2014, 08:31 AM
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386 and 486 were capable of running 95/98, Robert tongue.gif

Slowly, but they could biggrin.gif

I was also given a brand new, still-in-the-packaging 486, time to bring it to life I say biggrin.gif

Xargon, I was donated a whole bunch of old hard drives, if you cant get one, let me know.
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post Feb 20 2014, 08:54 PM
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Just saw the potential list of games on my fb feed, BF1942 = awesome. Was going to suggest this but thought it might have been too new. Putting in a vote to add half life 1 to the list, snarks! (Also a simpler rts like Red Alert 2?). GTA1 over a network always results in lots of laughs too smile.gif......and Red Faction 1 smile.gif.

If were def playing BF1942 I'm certainly going to bring something from the P4/skt A era then. I had a 1800+ skt A with 256mb ram and 64mb geforce mx440L and BF was still pretty average to play large battles on. Loading times off the single 20gb hdd I had were appalling.
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post Feb 20 2014, 10:19 PM
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Hey,

Yes - we'll make a new news post about this shortly - I've been a bit slack with this project as I've been focussed on v30.

I'll be dusting off my old P3 700 - this is the system I used to LAN with at the old Shafted events from late 2000 onwards. Even has the 30GB IBM DeathStar drive. Trust me to buy a drive that was notorious for failure!!

Half-Life 1: can't believe we left that off! Yep, we'll stick that on the list, too.
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