Old school LAN party.md

Old school LAN party

Selection criteria

• Games should be playable on current to semi-old notebooks (with an integrated Intel graphics adapter)
• Gameclients should be available for Linux, macOS and Windows
• Gameplay and overall experience should be as close as possible to the vanilla game (apart from necessary changes to make the game playable on newer hardware, operating systems, architectures and network protocols)
• LAN and WAN play should be possible using the same setup
• Joining an already running game should be possible

Games

Doom 2

• Client: Zandronum
• Gamedata: doom2.wad (md5: 25e1459ca71d321525f84628f45ca8cd)
• Must-have WAD-Compilation: BESTOFDM (Best Of Deathmatch)
• A basic server.cfg:

  deathmatch 1
  timelimit 10
  fraglimit 20
  addmap map01
  sv_nofreelook true
  sv_itemrespawn true
  

Quakeworld

• Client: Darkplaces or ezQuake
• Gamedata:
  • pak0.pak (md5: 5906e5998fc3d896ddaf5e6a62e03abb)
  • pak1.pak (md5: d76b3e5678f0b64ac74ce5e340e6a685)
• Server: Darkplaces or MVDSV
• A basic server.cfg:

  deathmatch 1
  timelimit 10
  fraglimit 20
  map dm1
  

Quake 2

• Client: Yamagi Quake II
• Gamedata:
  • pak0.pak (md5: 1ec55a724dc3109fd50dde71ab581d70)
  • pak1.pak (md5: 42663ea709b7cd3eb9b634b36cfecb1a)
  • pak2.pak (md5: c8217cc5557b672a87fc210c2347d98d)
• A basic server.cfg:

  set deathmatch "1"
  set timelimit "10"
  set fraglimit "20"
  map q2dm1
  

Quake 3

• Client: ioQuake3
• Gamedata:
  • pak0.pk3 (md5: 1197ca3df1e65f3c380f8abc10ca43bf)
  • pak1.pk3 (md5: 48911719d91be25adb957f2d325db4a0)
  • pak2.pk3 (md5: d550ce896130c47166ca44b53f8a670a)
  • pak3.pk3 (md5: 968dfd0f30dad67056115c8e92344ddc)
  • pak4.pk3 (md5: 24bb1f4fcabd95f6e320c0e2f62f19ca)
  • pak5.pk3 (md5: 734dcd06d2cbc7a16432ff6697f1c5ba)
  • pak6.pk3 (md5: 873888a73055c023f6c38b8ca3f2ce05)
  • pak7.pk3 (md5: 8fd38c53ed814b64f6ab03b5290965e4)
  • pak8.pk3 (md5: d8b96d429ca4a9c289071cb7e77e14d2)
• A basic server.cfg:

  set g_gametype 0
  set timelimit 10
  set fraglimit 20
  map q3dm1
  

TODO

• Map rotations for dedicated servers (Voting?)
• Mods? (Team Fortress, Painkeep, Severed,...)
• None id games? (Duke Nukem 3D, Command & Conqer: Tiberian Dawn, Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit,...)