[denim]

Took my Powerbook to a LAN party yesterday.

Everyone else was running a full sized PC with large monitor, while I was able to get by just fine with a Wallstreet II. Wonderful!

Now if only I could upgrade the graphics chip...

[seanyepez]

I ran a LAN party off of my 500-megahertz FireWire PowerBook on a boat. Yes, you heard me. At a company party with about five hundred people on a fairly large boat, four computers were set up.

As San Fransisco's wonderful landscaping passed by, people spilled their guts - literally.

Four PC desktops ran off of the PowerBook, and I joined in the game a few times. I massacred all the newbies with a touchpad. How sad.

Macs are truely awesome machines.

It must have been funny to have your Wallstreet sitting next to those huge, mean, ugly PC gaming desktops.

[seanyepez]

The monitors got a little gaussed up, but the cool "degauss" command on the monitor's on-screen display is very useful.

I envied the nVidia GeForce^2 GTS cards in those PC desktops, but I won anyway.

I left the game very early because whenever I joined in, people would leave. I set this up, and it's not right for the host to own the arena.

Imagine this: behind the monitors, you can see the lights of many buildings - or heck the Golden Gate bridge - at night while you frag people, rocking back and forth on a boat.

The LAN was right next to the casino (fake ) on the third floor, so we lost a few contestants to that. You can't lose money at the casino though, as we used fake chips.

[SpeedRacer]

Wallstreet II and LAN gaming? I have a WII as well (233) and i would not dream of using it to play UT or Q3A. These games barely run at 800x600 line doubled on my iMac/333 with 190MB ram!

Man i need a new computer...

Speed

[denim]

Originally posted by SpeedRacer:
Wallstreet II and LAN gaming? I have a WII as well (233) and i would not dream of using it to play UT or Q3A. These games barely run at 800x600 line doubled on my iMac/333 with 190MB ram!

Works! Tell UT to use the RAGE chip, and you'll be amazed at the difference. That's the same kind of Wallstreet I've got: 233MHz, 192MB.

[denim]

Originally posted by seanyepez:
As San Fransisco's wonderful landscaping passed by, people spilled their guts - literally.

Drool!

Four PC desktops ran off of the PowerBook, and I joined in the game a few times. I massacred all the newbies with a touchpad. How sad.

I wish I was that good. I was told that gaming with a touchpad is more difficult. Maybe that's why my butt is so waxy.

It must have been funny to have your Wallstreet sitting next to those huge, mean, ugly PC gaming desktops.

Yeah, it was very different, I'll say that. I wonder if we could arrange a Mac-centric LAN party, here in Massachusetts? Anyone interested? Hm. Time for a new topic.

[This message has been edited by denim (edited 08-01-2000).]

[SpeedRacer]

Originally posted by denim:
Works! Tell UT to use the RAGE chip, and you'll be amazed at the difference. That's the same kind of Wallstreet I've got: 233MHz, 192MB.

Game titles? Frame rates? I can't get anywhere NEAR 30fps (just barely above 20) with Q3A or UT with my Wallstreet - sure they didn't slip you a Pismo when you weren't lookin?



Speed

[denim]

Originally posted by SpeedRacer:
Game titles? Frame rates? I can't get anywhere NEAR 30fps (just barely above 20) with Q3A or UT with my Wallstreet - sure they didn't slip you a Pismo when you weren't lookin?

UT. Haven't checked frame rates. Don't know how. What I do know is that the result is very playable. Much better than I get on my G3/233 DT machine, with software rendering.