Our portable LAN party solution

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The holidays are usually devoted to a lot of gaming, especially when my friends from high school fly home from the States. This is a set up of 5 portables running on a home WiFi network – two of which are Macs. The objective was to run through Diablo II: Lord of Destruction from the start and get as far as we could.

The most interesting part was installing Diablo II on two OS X machines and networking them with three other Windoze portables without having to run Parallels or BootCamp. I’ve talked about CrossOver for Mac OS X before and this is what we used to do a native install of Diablo. Original Blizzard installers are usually compatible with both Mac and PC but it was way too geeky to resist doing a native Windows run of Diablo on OS X. ๐Ÿ™‚

So yeah, if you’re wondering how far into the game we got … age (and carpal tunnel) dictated the best of us and we got as far as Act I, defeating Andariel.

Please don’t judge. We’re just regular geeks. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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6 responses to “Our portable LAN party solution”

  1. Kiven Avatar

    Happy New Year, Jayvs.

  2. Jayvee Avatar

    happy new year kind sir! ๐Ÿ™‚

  3. GLICH'S LIFE Avatar

    Hahaha! This is funny! Nice one! I hope I’m as “geek” as you in terms of networking! Happy New Year, Jayvee!

  4. Fitz Avatar

    I can imagine the fun you guys had that day. Woot! Happy New Year. ๐Ÿ˜€

  5. Jon Parshall Avatar

    Thanks for the mention of CrossOver–we appreciate it!

    Cheers,

    -jon parshall-
    COO
    http://www.codeweavers.com

  6. Joel @ MMOtaku Avatar

    Methinks you spent more time setting up the network. o.0

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