First Commodore 64 LAN Party

Leif_Bloomquist writes "The world's first Commodore 64 LAN party was held at the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club 2008 Expo last weekend, where the new multiplayer C64 game NetRacer was unveiled. The setup consists of up to eight Commodore 64s with Ethernet cartridges and a central server written in Java running on a PC. The game is also playable over the Internet."

high security?

Is New Zealand a terrorist country or something? I got this:

You are not authorized to view this page
The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.

Please try the following:

        * Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.

HTTP Error 403.6 - Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

Technical Information (for support personnel)

        * Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 403.
        * Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled About Security, Limiting Access by IP Address, IP Address Access Restrictions, and About Custom Error Messages.

Re:high security?

I think since the C64 event is in the USA that it blocks out foreign IP addresses. Try using a Web proxy from the USA and see if that works, or Use Tor [torproject.org] to connect to a USA Tor server.

I'll mirror the location of the event if you want information on it:

"05/26/2008: To pre-pay admission and table fee(s) for the C4 Expo, please Paypal your payments to [e-mail].

When making payment, please ensure you put what you are paying for

in the comments field of the Paypal transaction.

The receipt for the Paypal transaction MUST be presented at the

admission desk in order to gain entrance to the Expo!!

Door Charges: $10/person or $15/family

Selling tables: $15/table or 3 for $35 (The hotel charges $10/table in addition for power usage.)

T-shirts: TBD

The Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club is proud to present the 3rd annual C4 Expo.

June 28-29 at the Drawbridge Inn

located at:

2477 Royal Drive
Fort Mitchell, KY 41017"

I think you can use that email address to ask them why they blocked your IP. Possible some IIS administration script that locks down security also blocked foreign IPs.

Re:high security?

...05/26/2008: To pre-pay admission and table fee(s) for the C4 Expo, please Paypal your payments to [e-mail].

I think I'm beginning to understand the Security issue [wikipedia.org].

Hooray!

I urgently await Jumpman deathmatches!

Re:Hooray!

You haven't played Bard's Tale, Pirates!, or Donkey Kong, until you played them on the C64 using the tape drive. :)

Jumpman was great, but I liked a game called Wizard that let you design your own levels and your own spells on a custom floppy disk and challenge your friends to deathmatches on that. It was like Jumpman but you could throw fireballs or stop your enemies from moving, or become temporary invulnerable for a short while.

Yes but

Were there any girls there?

Re:Yes but

Judging from the pics, there was at least one.

Re:Yes but

At least one [wikipedia.org], probably. Maybe two. [robohara.com] :-P

FWIW, I have met Ms. Ellsworth at a Commodore Convention before. Her photo on Wikipedia does not do her justice. And besides that, she really knows her stuff when it comes to the Commodore.

Re:Yes but

Oh, hush. I'm sure it's just an homage to Amok Time:
http://img384.imageshack.us/my.php?image=16845670dh4.png [imageshack.us]

Re:Yes but

You must be new here.

Re:Yes but

And every guy in the room is STILL staring only at the C64.

Wish I Would Have Been There

I have one of those rrnet ethernet devices for the C64. They are great fun. I tried to make a post to a phpBB and it took me about 40 minutes to navigate to the thread I wanted to post in, then it crashed. O sweet glory.

btw, http://www.c64web.com/ [c64web.com] is hosted on a c64.

Re:Wish I Would Have Been There

btw, http://www.c64web.com/ [c64web.com] [c64web.com] is hosted on a c64.

And after posting that on /., there is now one less functioning c64 in the world.

So....

Is that site painfully slow because it's been Slashdotted or because it's running on a C64 ;) ?

More importantly, what happens when a C64 gets Slashdotted, does it start chewing up tapes or melt or anything?

Re:Wish I Would Have Been There

btw, http://www.c64web.com/ [c64web.com] is hosted on a smoldering heap of slag.

Fixed.

Alternative to Vista?

Vista must be pretty bad if people are switching to C64.

Talk about retro!

Yeow! I may have expected an Amiga club, but C64? Man, does that bring back memories!!!

I did a lot of cool stuff on the 64 way, WAY back, using Forth (remember that language?).

Some computers will never die. No matter how old. LONG LIVE COMMODORE!!!!

Re:Talk about retro!

sadly, commodore of today is a shadow of its former self...

http://www.commodoregaming.com/pcshop/home.aspx [commodoregaming.com]

been there, done that

I can say that I have actually done this before, back in the 80's. Not using Ethernet, as I don't think there were any Ethernet hardwares available at the time for the Commodore .. but I've done it. Wired several Commodores together, and played multiplayer games.

Re:been there, done that

Back about 1986, I actually surfed the net on a Commodore 128.
The local community college got a spanking new server hooked up, and students were allowed to dial in in to get schedules, some class material, whatever. (I think it was still Arpanet back then, but it was years before World wide web)

Anyway, I logged in (at a whopping 1200 baud), looked around (After a bit of tweaking, Commodore had lowercase and capitals switched in ascii, plus none standard characters) and actually made it to a few net sites. (IBM, some national Community college site, a couple of others)

Wasn't interested, it was slower than most BBS's I could get to, had almost no graphics (and none that I could view), and no content I was interested in at the time, So I logged off and didn't get back to the net until 1998. Things sure changed in a dozen years!

Oh, I wasn't a student there, just heard about it and was curious. Online security? Some things haven't changed much!

I'm happy for them

I'm sure these guys (and gals?) had a ton of fun. I see a lot of comments of the "what a bunch of dorks"-kind. I don't think they're any more dorks than any person who has a hobby and likes to associate and share his experiences and passion with like-minded folks. Don't over think it - it's just socializing and fun, nothing else.

As for the C-64: I have several of 'em, and as soon as it becomes crystal clear which Ethernet card is the dominant (we're close) I'll be picking up one. I have networked weird stuff into my network already (Sony NEWS, Netwinder, old DOS PC/packet driver etc.) why not add one of my C-64s.

Doesn't Anyone Miss the Commodore Pet?

My first personally owned computer wasn't a C64, it was a Commodore Pet. That doesn't make me *that* much older than the C64 crowd, does it?

The Pet was also the first computer I ever used that booted itself when I turned on the power. My reward for turning on the the switch was a HELLO? prompt. All other computers I used at work before the Pet required me to enter a bootstrap program in binary before they would start the OS.

In Pet Basic one could do wonderfully fun things, especially with the character graphics. My kids loved the games I wrote. I don't recall ever buying any software for the Pet. Wrote it all myself. It was great fun.

For some strange reason, the Commodore Pet is always forgotten when people write about the pioneering PC days.

Re:At last

C64 porn? Sigh. Back to tits that look like they're made out of Legos.
     

Re:horrid site

I can't work out who's geekier. The guys holding C64 lan parties or you running websites through the W3 validator...

Re:Eh

Eh (Score:0, Redundant)
by Lulfas (1140109) on Sunday July 06, @05:52PM (#24077695)

Eh

Possibly one of the best uses of the Redundant mod tag I have yet seen.