November 26-27. Dylan's house. We plan to start around 1PM on Friday and end about 1PM on Saturday (Some people may be staying later, that's no problem).
But you may be wondering what we're doing exactly. Everyone (And we're looking at about 15-18 people right now, maybe more, maybe fewer) brings their computer to my house. We network them, and we swap files and play network games all night. The most popular game is probably Quake 2, but Quake 3, Unreal Tournament, and a lot of other games should be quite popular. I plan on running a Quake 2 Tournament at sometime. Also, for a little variety, we might play around a bit with some Quake 2 Mods. If you've already got Quake 2, check out QPong, Assault, CTF, Catch The Chicken, and Freeze Tag. You can find them all on PlanetQuake. (Plus, if you've got another favorite mod, just email me.)
Things to remember-
A computer with a working network card, 10BT or 10/100. (Our hubs will be 10/100 with some 10, so we will be able to do some things at 100, but not everone has a 100 BT card.)
All of your computer's parts. (Sucks to be missing a mouse, keyboard, power cable, etc)
A mousepad! An amazing number of people forget these.
Headphones, if at all possible. For one, the sound of Quake 2 from fifteen different comptuers is cool, but a bit much after a while. Also, it's to your benefit if people can't hear when you're under water, going up an elevator, picking up certain powerups, etc.
Software and files of all kinds. Part of the event is sharing files at many times the ideal speeds over the internet. I got 9 CDs worth of MP3s and 3 CDs worth of games at one LAN, for instance. You never know when what someone else might be interested in that you have.
Cat5 Networking cable, mucho importante. Bring...whatever you can get your hands on, but 10-15' or more would be nice. I should be buying a spool of this, but I'll need to be partially compensated.
You'll wanna label your stuff. Cat5 all looks pretty similar. Masking tape around cables with your name written on it works fine.
$5 if possible. This is to help with costs for food, drinks, and small hardware like power strips and cat5.
We ordered a spool of 250' of cat5, but it may not be here in time. In that case, we're planning on going to a local store and getting cable at about $10 for 25' feet, so maybe factor that in if you're coming with no cable.
List of LAN Partiers (If there are no comments, the person can be assumed to be coming.)-
Dylan Flipse
Tom Smith
Jack Foust
Bill Foust
Sam Corbett
Jesse Brown
Danny Schmitt
Matt Yeomans(Didn't come)
Nik Ambrosh(Didn't come)
Matt Smith
Billy Rogers(Didn't come)
Bill DiGiacomo
Scott Foreman-Murray((Didn't come)
Mike Brion(Didn't come)
Jered Berge
Matt Dudek
Nat
Jesse's
PII 333, 64MB SDRAM, 8GB IDE HD, 32X CD-ROM, 17" monitor, Diamond Multimedia Viper 770 TNT2 32MB SDRAM, "Blame GE" sticker
Jack's
Celeron 433, 96MB RAM, 27GB UDMA66 ATA33 HDD, 32MB ATI Rage Fury, 17" Monitor, 32X CD-ROM
PII 400, 64MB RAM, 3.xGB HDD, 44X CD-ROM (For Q2 Server)
Bill Foust's
Cyrix 300, 2MB Vid, 64MB RAM, 2GB HD, 8X CD-ROM
Sam's
K6 225, 96MB RAM, 2.1 UDMA33 and 1.6 EIDE HDD, 40X Ultraplex, 4MB ATI, 10/100 PCI NIC, 2' Black tower with a Large Intel Inside sticker on the side (funny because of lack of Intel chips in the box)
Tom's
AMD K6/2 450, S4 Savage32 4x AGP Video, 198MB PC-100 RAM, 17GB UDMA-66 5400RPM Maxtor HDD, 6.4GB Western Digital HDD, 40X CD-ROM, 17' Viewsonic 7 Monitor, Sound Blaster PCI 128, 3Com 10/100 Ethernet Adapter, Logitech Mouse
Matt Smith's
PII 300, 10 BT Network Card , 128MB RAM , 32MB Savage 4, 4.3GB HDD , Soundblaster 128, 15" Monitor, 24X CD-ROM, LS-120, 4X DVD
Bill DiGiacomo's
AMD K6-2 366, 96MB SDRAM, 6GB HDD, 8.4 Maxtor (p.o.s.) HDD, 17' CTX VL-700 monitor, Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, Cable Modem, MS 3DPro Joystick, 8 Button USB Gamepad, Ergo Keyboard + Touchpad, Logitech Mouseman+ 4, Altec Lansing ACS-45's, (and don't forget Luke's EQ)
Jered's
P3 450, 64MB PC-100 RAM, 17GB IDE Maxtor, 4.3GB Quantum, 8X DVD, 2x2x24 CD-RW, 2 x Netgear 10/100 NIC, 8MB ATI.
