Ramblings (Underdog Chamber)

I finally got that last tangerine colored iMac cleaned up as best I could and hooked it up to the LAN to test it (and the 25′ cable I bought). Everything worked just dandy, so I now have nine G3 iMacs ready for the show. Eight will be for players, and the other one will run the show. If things get really busy, as in people waiting to play, I may allow use of the ninth computer. I’m just trying to avoid the few folks who quit the program last year on the one machine that runs the LAN, which of course shut the LAN down. Always nice when you tell people not to quit a game, and they do it anyway.

On the side, I’ve named the tangerine iMac Amber, as I like each system to have a name. I may list them all here soon (just because I can).

With that done, I need to print up more Quake signs for this year, so people can easily fine my LAN area. I also want to create updated instructions for the game too, now that the ‘mouse options’ work on all machines. I need to switch over and finish TV testing too, and pick out a few more console systems. As mentioned, the G7400 is next on my list!

Later folks…

Quake LAN machines

Yeah, I’m behind schedule again, but not a big deal. Managed to start working on the last of the G3 iMacs for the LAN, but have not finished with it yet. Hope to get it done later tonight/very early Sunday morning. Till then, that is all I have to report for today.

Getting closer… less than two weeks till the show!

I took a bit of time away from other things and tested another TV set finally, but this time with the Atari 7800 system. Since I got the system out, I’ve decided to simply add it to the UC 2010 display. I love this old system, especially Alien Brigade and a few other games that play very well on the old 7800. This system also has a nice S-video display, thanks to it having been MOD’d three years ago from a fellow video game friend.

I still need to get one more iMac system working for the LAN, plus dig out more TV sets, and pick a few more systems to have on display. That will hopefully happen before this coming weekend is up, but I make no promises.

Atari 7800

Two weeks and a few days to go, and I’m not ready yet, but will be. As for what I was going to do this very early morning, it is on hold, as school wins over UC at this time. Sorry.

Nice to see that the speaker list will be posted on the MGC site very soon, for those folks who’ve been asking me about that!

Not much time to work on things today. I spent about an hour in the basement, moving stuff around to make room to finally test TV sets (yeah, I haven’t done that yet). Don’t expect problems, but I’d rather be safe that sorry. So, I now have a space to plop down TVs, plus ‘em in, and test them out. Yeah!

I also made a slight change to the Strawberry iMac – I remembered to change it’s IP address – don’t want any network conflicts during the Quake LAN.

Back to studying…