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Cross-Platform LAN Gaming Suggestions?

Posted by simoniker on from the living-together-in-harmony dept.

darkstar2a writes "Back in the dot.com boom years, a bunch of us would crash the empty customer service department for some fun LAN gaming. Nowadays, though, we use our own computers, and have a significant ratio of Mac users - about 55%. This has brought up a huge frustration in finding games that work cross-platform (PC and Mac), and what exactly we need to make them work. We've only been reliably able to get the following working: Unreal Tournament (but the same game can get kind of old after hours of play), 4x4 Evo 2 (which we got cheap and was a great change of pace), Descent 3 (out of print and relatively difficult to locate.) This has to have been covered somewhere, but we've been unable to locate a resource for it. Can Slashdot Games readers help?"

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  1. Games? Theres plenty... by DiSKiLLeR · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Unreal Tournament (OS9/OSX)
    Unreal Tournament 2003
    Warcraft 3 + Expansion
    Diablo II
    Quake 3
    Quake 3: Team Arena
    Jedi Knight II (this is awesome)

    Plus I am sure there are stacks of others. These are all games that I personally play on my LAN at home (I have a Titanium PowerBook, the other machine is a Pentium III XP box).

    No problems what so ever!

    Some of those games (Like War3, D2) are hybrid cd's and contain PC and Mac on the same CD. Others like Q3 are very easy to convert... just copy pak0.pak of the CD, and get the latest q3 patch off the net to get the OSX binaries. Your off!

    D.

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  2. Q3A Mod - Urban Terror. by jfisherwa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I highly suggest Urban Terror. -- it's a team-based (or DM) semi-realism mod that bares some semblence to QuakeWorld mixed with Counter-Strike. Very fast paced when you want it to be, but has semi-realistic weapons and excellent maps. Personally, I found that it always beat Counter-Strike in pure fun-factor hands-down.

    Enjoy!

  3. I'm surprised by Drantin · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No one has mentioned Armagetron yet...

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