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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My work was throwing away a few Pentium II workstations. Are they too modern?
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 . Would be cool to bust out the 486 for same lannage . Suppose it really depends on the list of games.
Where are the photos?
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 .
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.
Photos of v29 you dolt.
386 and 486 were capable of running 95/98, Robert
Slowly, but they could
I was also given a brand new, still-in-the-packaging 486, time to bring it to life I say
Xargon, I was donated a whole bunch of old hard drives, if you cant get one, let me know.
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 ......and Red Faction 1 .
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.
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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