Off Topic Thread 3.0

prawnsambo

Stheno wrote: »

Shouldn't there be a / in front ?

Not at a DOS prompt.

pickarooney

Stheno wrote: »

Shouldn't there be a / in front ?

What is this, IRC?

I remember having to make .bat files for half the games that wouldn't run on my PC as a yung'un.

F**king rise of the triad I had to disable sound to get it to load up in less than half an hour.

Boot disks certainly brought things along, but boy do I remember the day I upgraded to 4 megs of ram. My face was melted by the sheer imba'ness of the newly unleashed frame per second upgrade on the various 64 bit games I was into at the time.

sullivlo

dregin wrote: »

Always swore I'd never go near a mac until my last workplace threw a macbook pro at me. Haven't looked back.

Once you go Mac, you never go back.

sullivlo

sullivlo wrote: »

Once you go Mac, you never go back.

Until you go to a LAN and realise you are going to sit in the corner and play Civilisation 5 by yourself all night...

Dave_The_Sheep

Deleted User wrote: »

Until you go to a LAN and realise you are going to sit in the corner and play Civilisation 5 by yourself all night...

****, I do miss me a good LAN.

Closest I get now is me and GF having our machines in the same room, or a mate dragging his machine up from Tullow to my place for the weekend.

Nothing like MidLans going on these days are there?

errlloyd

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

Nothing like MidLans going on these days are there?

The good old days of crashing under my desk in a sleeping bag to get two hours of ****e sleep before waking up and playing some super intense FPS for 8 hours straight.

irishbucsfan

Dave_The_Sheep

errlloyd wrote: »

The good old days of crashing under my desk in a sleeping bag to get two hours of ****e sleep before waking up and playing some super intense FPS for 8 hours straight.

The smell.

Neil3030

I just unboxed our Casper mattress.... Ooohhhh yyyeeeaaahh

Podge_irl

errlloyd wrote: »

The good old days of crashing under my desk in a sleeping bag to get two hours of ****e sleep before waking up and playing some super intense FPS for 8 hours straight.

You slept?

Weakling.

mfceiling

I have a 10 year Toshiba laptop running Windows XP.

Used once every 2 months to file a vat return and given once a year to the accountant for the end of year returns.

Lot of lads here in the computer/software industry?

(And the ladies)

dregin

Last LAN I was at I ended up trying to eat a wagon wheel after watching someone else do it. That did not end well. Coincidentally, it was also the last time I even considered eating anything form Mizzonis.

Podge_irl

Ah, the wagon wheel. Seemed like such a good idea at the time, but was actually pretty **** pizza.

Think the last LAN I went to was the last Darkside.

I had a mini LAN over the Christmas break and a decent sized LAN the year before.

Growing up though and into my 20's had some absolutely massive LAN's - upto 10 players and a unending supply of pizza, buckfast and burger bites.

Those were glorious, incredibly smelly days.

Boards Rugby LAN....

Zzippy

LAN? Lame Ass Nerds?

Zzippy

Zzippy wrote: »

LAN? Lame Ass Nerds?

More like Lazy Asinine Namecalling

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

More like Lazy Asinine Namecalling

No seriously, though, along with a tracker mortgage, WTF is a LAN?

b.gud

Zzippy wrote: »

No seriously, though, along with a tracker mortgage, WTF is a LAN?

Local Area Network

Interested Observer

Zzippy wrote: »

No seriously, though, along with a tracker mortgage, WTF is a LAN?

Local Area Network. Way of connecting computers together, I think in this context it was before online gaming was much of a thing.

ClanofLams

Does anyone know how long the Luas takes from Heuston Station to Stephens Green?

prawnsambo

ClanofLams wrote: »

Does anyone know how long the Luas takes from Heuston Station to Stephens Green?

I think you have to change. So Red line from Heuston to Abbey St. and then walk to Marlborough St. and get the Green line to Stephens Green.

A brief history of the LAN party

So back in the early 90's PC gaming was starting to seriously take off with more and more mainstream titles coming out with dedicated multiplayer. This was before the Internet was widely available and so to play against your friends the PC's had to be directly connected.

Because of the hassle of having to physically move an entire computer, monitor and peripherals to a friends house you tended to do it over a weekend and play non stop pretty much. It wasn't something that could be done with any frequency so it was a kind of 'party' hence the term LAN Party.

LAN technology was barely available back then and most people were still primarily using DOS as opposed to windows so it was an entirely different era.

The first LAN I ever went to wasn't a LAN. We were using daisy chains of directly connected PC's using COM ports and LPT ports. It was difficult to setup and broke down quite easily. On top of that most people were manually upgrading their PC with bits and parts from wherever you could get them cheaply and as a result moving a PC often resulted in it not turning on when you arrived to the hosts house. I vividly remember those first LAN days where a few people were gaming and most people were taking apart machines and trying to get stuff working.

It was an amazing time for learning about technology.

Anyway Windows 95 came along and revolutionised networking. After this you just needed a router that everyone plugged into and the connections become more seamless between a greater number of machines.

You would spend anything from a day and a night upto a week at times playing an endless variety of pirated games and there would be regular breaks for food and drink and copying copious amounts of pornography across PC's.

Eventually the internet became widely available and fast enough to support online gaming and that sort of killed the LAN.

There is still nothing like hunkering down for a few days of blood, sweat and buckfast in one house with a few mates but it's much harder to organise now.

My LANs were always at the end of August. My training season would be over so I'd be on a break and from when I was 16 on my folks would go away on a holiday just the pair of them for that week, and the house would become basically an open LAN party for the duration.

So Zzippy are you going to come to the boards LAN? We can all install fishing simulator...

Buer

ClanofLams wrote: »

Does anyone know how long the Luas takes from Heuston Station to Stephens Green?

I'm not fully up to speed on the new cross city set up but I assume you'd still need to change Luas around O'Connell Street. It should take about 20 minutes, I reckon but you'd be as quick walking once you get off the first tram if it's during rush hour.

I would say just walk from O'Connell Street when you get off the red line. I'd say about 20-25 minutes.

If you fancied a stroll, I'd say you'd do it all on foot in about 35 minutes.

Zzippy

Deleted User wrote: »

So Zzippy are you going to come to the boards LAN? We can all install fishing simulator...

If you install this yoke, I'm in...

prawnsambo

You forgot the forerunner: The modem game. Only available to two players, but moDoom was my favourite back in the day.

Zzippy

Zzippy wrote: »

If you install this yoke, I'm in...

Is... is that Paul Kimmage?

prawnsambo

Buer wrote: »

I'm not fully up to speed on the new cross city set up but I assume you'd still need to change Luas around O'Connell Street. It should take about 20 minutes, I reckon but you'd be as quick walking once you get off the first tram if it's during rush hour.

I would say just walk from O'Connell Street when you get off the red line. I'd say about 20-25 minutes.

If you fancied a stroll, I'd say you'd do it all on foot in about 35 minutes.

The red line from Heuston to Abbey St. is about eleven minutes on average according to the Luas website. Frequency is about 4 to 6 minutes during the day. Walking from Abbey St. to Stephen's Green is about 10 to 15 minutes. Probably the best way to do it because you'd have a wait time and the green line doesn't take as direct a route to Stephens Green as the walk would.

prawnsambo

prawnsambo wrote: »

You forgot the forerunner: The modem game. Only available to two players, but moDoom was my favourite back in the day.

Bulletin boards and horrible laggy rocket fights!

I always remember that coming later. I had been to LAN parties as early as 1992 but I don't remember modem play until 95/96 and it was an online version of Quake.

It's weird. It really all happened from 95 - 2005. Things haven't evolved much since then.