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Just wondering how many of us remain? Back then when OD got us in to the Octa4 building (way back when) for a LAN supported by an impressive internet backbone.
When the fastest PC there was running on a P3 766, and the GeForce2 was the choice of graphic cards. When nobody had more then 512megs of memory, and HD's didn't exceed 40gb's.
Just reliving old memories here. ^_^
I was there and i bloody loved the speed :O :)
sitting next to your 21 inch radiation box made me feel ill by next day :P bad
steve bad :P
my pc rocked the :P celeron 433 Voodoo 2 128 meg of ram and 8 gig hard drive :D
Remember the time we siliconed a fan to your heatsink for the CPU overheating issue?
I think back then I was running a GeForce2 with a Pii450 running at 504mhz and either 256 or 128megs of memory. ^O^
yeh that was pretty funny stupid crappy celeron *kicks it* :D thank god i killed it
we should of turned down the voltage maybe that would of fixed it cos i think it was set to high LOL
No computer but I did go down and have a look :) Not much more then that though :p
Anyone got piccy's of that event? That'll be a great memorabilla for GU :D
3 am rec me and few others were trying to get free drinks outta the drink machine hehehe
lol pics of me laying on the floor ill from the radiation box and chads 14 inch radiation king.
I was ill from the monitors and the fact i hadnt slept in 36 hours
Yeah, I remember a flash going off now and then. I think OD has some.
I remember that lan Too, the blair witch project, was the main downlaoded file :)
Also Chuthlu blowning his IDE controllers loosing most of his HDD's. and the one thing i remember the most, is waking up to the sound of a M60 thru eaters sounds system.
I can't remember, I may have gone to the lan.
I think we were on CS 5 beta then.
remember the guy that had a car racing seat screwed on office chair base had racing harness and every thing also drilled holes in the octa4 table to mount his joystick there was a photo of that around sumwhere i think..
also remember OD had the best pc around and it was a 850 with 1/4 gig of ram(his words at the time if i remember correctly)
lol funny :P
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remember the guy that had a car racing seat screwed on office chair base had racing harness and every thing also drilled holes in the octa4 table to mount his joystick there was a photo of that around sumwhere i think..
also remember OD had the best pc around and it was a 850 with 1/4 gig of ram(his words at the time if i remember correctly)
I've still got that! The Full tower case :) And it was 512 ram :)
No chance of finding any photos of that from me though unfortunately.
Should have one again some day ;)
I think we should organise a rememberence lan... One by invite only for the people who attended the O4 Lan and DGA1.
Oh, and we should play beta versions of CS, including the cars. ^_~
cool, then I can go to a LAN :D
look out for RetroLAN this year. ;)
*yawn*
hahahahahahahaha ..
Howie with the SMAK down
aww I wasnt there until dga..3 I think, or maybe even 4
I wasnt even born back then
:P
I remember connecting to a down south q2CTF server. Pings were about 100 through the 2MB line (there was alot of leeching that night) which was still better than the 250-300 ping I would get on dial-up. (good ol dial-up days)
Yeah, thats the other thing that has to be remembered - this is all pre-ADSL in Darwin :)
More like Pre-ADSL N.T.
Am I right?
:p
geez yeah i remember the days.. i had a pentium 200 MMX with 64megs of ram and a 14" monitor that had red missing. man cs was brilliant on lan for the first time, going from 350ping to 30 ping on 7fps weeee :D i remember shannow in q2dm1 deathmatch with the cartman skin, he absolutley slaughtered me.. something like 90 kills him 5 me.... :(
was that when we installed the powers of the 4mb voodoo2 card and witnessed the true greatness of Quake 2!?
i miss quake 2.. that was crazy.
Yeah I got seated next to ruin at that one, I had a PIII 500 with some laughably small amount of ram and 16gig I think of disk space.
It was actually a 4MB Voodoo 1 overclocked to give us almost DOUBLE the frame rate in quake2.. pitty it was only from 7 to about 14fps :p
It wasn't the Blair Witch Project movie either, it was MorTaR getting Scary Movie off good old mIRC. I remember it very well, lots of fun to be had. Overdrive was getting up to his p90 whoring as usual, but got put down pretty quickly :P hehehe lots of fun.
oh, I thought it was Blair... ohwell You are right, mortar did the handy work, I remember him waiting for the second part to download ... :D
When you think about it, it was a great LAN, in it's time :D
It was a great LAN full stop. I say it a lot, but modern LANs aren't as much 'fun' as the old ones. Evo1 wasn't as much fun, but Evo2 was awesome, very social feel to it. Possibly the best LAN in Darwin... Since then it's never felt the same.
B&B's LANs almost brought it back, then there were the problems there. ~_~
It's great seeing the old mob at LANs, you can muck about, have a laugh.
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but Evo2 was awesome, very social feel to it. Possibly the best LAN in Darwin... Since then it's never felt the same.
:D
:-D :grin: :D :cool:
Sorry for the interuption but Choc = Tsunami????? yes???
Yep looks like him :)
LOL it was gone in 60 seconds :D i remember cos i needed help installing divx like version 2 or some shit hehehe..
also scary movie i think :D
omg i wanna go back to that building again and abuse the internet connection :D.. :S
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Sorry for the interuption but Choc = Tsunami????? yes???
that'd be me with the avatar ninja strike
I have to work with him now, caught him trying to sign up without telling anyone a couple weeks ago. The email addy gave it away :P
I'm a ninja detective
yeah thats him alright .. he lives in palmo now ..
who is ucok anyways?
*yawns*
Didn't go to the first Lan but loved going to the Octa4 office in uniform with sponge and asking for Mr. Dan.
The office girl goes to find the boss to find OD whilst spongy and I eat all the lollies at the front office.
OD appears worried then see's us and tells boss all is ok as "I have info for the police."
HEHEHEH
They were the times.
Lataf, Dont forget the time you two visited me at my work :), seems you guys really do enjoy your work, and the extra activites.
He he... I remember some of those visits. ^_^'
Only checking for illegal downloads/copies.
Yet never found any.
You ppl were too damn honest.
Made me go and look at speeders to make a living.
My ears were burning when this thread was made, i actually quite remember going to this lan its were the great [TOB] clan was made by me and Eater of souls, hehehe **** those were the days huh howie
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Wassup monkey!!
What I did like about the old Octa4 lan was that they gave out free shirts. I've still got my Octa4play T-shirt in my cupboard somewhere, they were kool shirts :D
I think I've still got a Octa4 play stubbie cooler.
Kind of funny when some noob set his IP to the same as the Octa4 gateway router. I don't think the Octa4 techo was too impressed.
How long ago was that now? i remember Korny and Mortar going on about it for weeks. Rec was going on about it for months.
A log time ago... Was before I worked at Octa4. I'd say about 4 or 5 years ago.