Socket 3 lan party? were there that many 486 playable lan multiplayer games?
almost all the fun ones I can come up with crawled on 486 🙁

Doom runs great on a 486... you'll like it better on a DX2, and you'll want more than 25 MHz, but yeah, it works. Lots of people still had 486's in 1994. It's a 386 that would kill your 3D FPS's.

Don't forget about Netkeen!

We had alot of fun linking games with null modem back in the days, dreamed about a koax or tp network.. We never got GTA1 to work without lag on lan later on tho, only null modem 😀 Even connected 4 computers with null modem cable and played starcraft, but that was crash laggy..

This lan is a socket 3 party, but dont think there is going to be many out of 16ppl that go under 100Mhz..
Myself iam gona set the bus to 40 on the Overdrive computer, and maybe even try 50. Pentium 125 mhz will go a loong way.
The mobo is a Asus PVI-486SP3 rev 1.2 btw.

I hope to play alot of
C&C
Red Alert
Civnet
Transport Tycoon
Doom
Warcraft
Settlers
Duke Nukem
Blood COOP!
And maybe some Carmageddon Splat Pak!
I even hope to get a Diablo Kill! It can be done from a socket 3! But it take some extra hardware or alot of commitment 😀

rasz_pl wrote:

Socket 3 lan party? were there that many 486 playable lan multiplayer games?
almost all the fun ones I can come up with crawled on 486 🙁

Warcraft 1 & 2, C&C, Red Alert, Doom's, Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Duke3d and GTA (yeh laggy for us as well)
Some of these would prefer something faster but me and my 2 mates played these games over and over between 1995-98 on our 486's

rekon you'll have an awesome time

Got the DX4 to run Windows 3.11 today, that was along time ago i touched that OS 😀
Iam gonna go for the Windows 95b\Dos7 solution on the Overdrive, but on this one i wanted to keep the real Dos 6.22 and dont bother alot of hassle, as windows 95b is not really good at bootloaders and hidden partitions or something, I read somewhere that it was something about the 95b version that was just off.

chinny22 wrote:

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rasz_pl wrote:

Socket 3 lan party? were there that many 486 playable lan multiplayer games?
almost all the fun ones I can come up with crawled on 486 🙁

Warcraft 1 & 2, C&C, Red Alert, Doom's, Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Duke3d and GTA (yeh laggy for us as well)
Some of these would prefer something faster but me and my 2 mates played these games over and over between 1995-98 on our 486's

rekon you'll have an awesome time

16 guys with good computers! in a warehouse in Gothenburg, what can go wrong? 😀
And the cherry on the top is pizza and cola... or maybe water for me now days 😀

_Roffe_ wrote:

chinny22 wrote:

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rasz_pl wrote:

Socket 3 lan party? were there that many 486 playable lan multiplayer games?
almost all the fun ones I can come up with crawled on 486 🙁

Warcraft 1 & 2, C&C, Red Alert, Doom's, Heretic, Rise of the Triad, Duke3d and GTA (yeh laggy for us as well)
Some of these would prefer something faster but me and my 2 mates played these games over and over between 1995-98 on our 486's

rekon you'll have an awesome time

16 guys with good computers! in a warehouse in Gothenburg, what can go wrong? 😀
And the cherry on the top is pizza and cola... or maybe water for me now days 😀

Nothing can go wrong, perhaps a new demo party is going to happen ? 😀 Gothenburg is a bit too far away from me. But Helsingborg or Malmö, I would be there in a jiffy 😀 Also I hope a Dane would be welcome 😀 Also enjoy your lan party 😀

WolverineDK wrote:

Nothing can go wrong, perhaps a new demo party is going to happen ? 😀 Gothenburg is a bit too far away from me. But Helsingborg or Malmö, I would be there in a jiffy 😀 Also I hope a Dane would be welcome 😀 Also enjoy your lan party 😀

We had a danish guy in Halmstad on the annual Brain Drain Retro lan(Max 850mhz geforce 256 or dec1999) that took place 3v ago 😀
And i dont think there is to much ppl, if you change your mind i can ask the guy that hosts the party if it is full! 😀
And enjoying the lan party i will! As loong as my windows 3.11/dos setup do as i want to 😀

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WolverineDK wrote:

Nothing can go wrong, perhaps a new demo party is going to happen ? 😀 Gothenburg is a bit too far away from me. But Helsingborg or Malmö, I would be there in a jiffy 😀 Also I hope a Dane would be welcome 😀 Also enjoy your lan party 😀

We had a danish guy in Halmstad on the annual Brain Drain Retro lan(Max 850mhz geforce 256 or dec1999) that took place 3v ago 😀
And i dont think there is to much ppl, if you change your mind i can ask the guy that hosts the party if it is full! 😀
And enjoying the lan party i will! As loong as my windows 3.11/dos setup do as i want to 😀

Don't sweat it 😀 it is good to see , than Danes are welcome 😀 And as I said, enjoy it 😀 But if I chose to go to a party, I would actually just enjoy watching the action on the screens. Cause I am more of a spectator now adays, and second of all. I do not have a tower setup anymore. But still, have fun ! 😀

The Brain Drain lan has rentals! 500:- sek for computer and seat 😀 This lan in gbg next week is a little bit more privet and small tho..
But still no reason to deny a dane! 😀
Here is some pics from Brain Drain!

That's great (and looks like it was a real blast)! Any information on how popular it was? How'd you get word out?

_Roffe_: You are an awesome human being 😀

gdjacobs wrote:

That's great (and looks like it was a real blast)! Any information on how popular it was? How'd you get word out?

Iam just an visitor to the lan even tho i know the ppl that arrange it 😀 Most ppl know each other thru swedish FB groups and there even is a website! In swedish tho 😀

Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/braindrainlan/?eid=A … BOKiVpJSXgkSOwT

Last event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/305188563428969/

Webpage:
https://www.braindrainlan.nu/braindrain.html

WolverineDK wrote:

_Roffe_: You are an awesome human being 😀

Thanks, you must be the first to say that! 😀

_Roffe_ wrote:

WolverineDK wrote:

_Roffe_: You are an awesome human being 😀

Thanks, you must be the first to say that! 😀

Well, I am just being honest. And if I ever went to a lan-party , I would be taking loads of pictures and so forth 😀 Cause that is a great hobby of mine 😀

WolverineDK wrote:

_Roffe_ wrote:

WolverineDK wrote:

_Roffe_: You are an awesome human being 😀

Thanks, you must be the first to say that! 😀

Well, I am just being honest. And if I ever went to a lan-party , I would be taking loads of pictures and so forth 😀 Cause that is a great hobby of mine 😀

Thanks 😀 It is alwyas nice with pivtures that is taken right and then the memories ofc! 😀

So which games you end up playing?

Funny enough tomorrow I'm taking my Slot 1 P3 round to someone I met on freecycle last year that I got a scythe mugen 2 cooler from
In the last few months he's gotten a Pentium MMX and a P2? the MMX isn't up and running so were going to have a bin of Win9x gaming session, although no traveling CRT's for me. I really have no desire to relive that part of LAN gaming!

At Brain Drain there was alot of Unreal, Q3, Blood, Age of Empires, Starcraft, CS!
And the CRT is always tricky, need a car for that one, but it is part of the nostalgia! 😀
At the socket 3 lan i just borrow a CRT, wont get that one on the train 😀 hehe