Jalada and Sefran talk further about what you need to think about when running your own LAN, as well as discussing some of the history of LAN parties and events and the state of the community today. We cover a lot in the show, but there's a lot more to it. Here's some related reading from what we covered, and some bits we didn't:

• Internet cafés.
• Copyparties and Demoparties.
• Revision is one of the largest Demoparties that's still going in southwest Germany. Some demoparties have also morphed into LAN parties & gaming events such as The Gathering and Assembly which are both still going in 2016.
• The Demoscene.
• Some examples of modern demos. Check the file sizes!
• 1999 BBC article about the first Insomnia event.
• "Gaming has left the LAN party behind" by Ben Kuchera for Polygon.
• Dreamhack.
• Multiplay Insomnia Gaming Festival .

Running your own LAN:

• If you need a network switch, remember you need an extra 'uplink' port to your router. Example switches for small LANs: 8 ports for £21, 16 ports for £50*.
• To protect your attendees' equipment you may want to think about providing RCD circuit breakers and surge protection plugs.
• Power supply calculator for calculating average attendee power usage.
• Running a 'LANcache' to save bandwidth and speed up downloads.
• More ideas and information from UKLP (some a little out of date).

If you have any more questions feel free to get in touch and ask, and let us know about your successful LAN party! Intro & outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion *Links are affiliate links. Proceeds go towards helping us out.

Jalada and Sefran explain, with examples, some of the aspects of games that work well at LAN parties. We touch on a whole bunch of games in this show, but in particular we highlight:

• Borderlands  and Borderlands 2.
• Heroes of the Storm.
• Towerfall.
• Team Fortress 2.

Other related reading:

• What was GameSpy Arcade?
• Insomnia Gaming Festival.

Intro & outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion

Jalada and Sefran chat about six of their favourite genre-defining real-time strategy games. Related reading from the show:

• Real-time strategy on Wikipedia
• Metagaming
• Age of Empires 2
  • How to play it: Try Age of Empires 2 HD, the 2013 remake.
• Homeworld
  • How to play it: Homeworld Remastered is a beautiful remake and comes complete with the sequel and a refined multiplayer experience.
• Rise of Nations
  • How to play it: Pick up Rise of Nations: Extended Edition, the 2014 remake.
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War
  • How to play it: It's work getting some of the expansion packs for Dawn of War, so pick up the Master Collection.
• World in Conflict
  • How to play it: World in Conflict multiplayer servers have been shut down but you can still pick the game up complete with expansion from GOG and it still has local multiplayer for your LAN party!
• Populous: The Beginning
  • How to play it: Populous doesn't work well on modern PCs (Sef couldn't get it running) but you can pick it up on GOG.

Intro & outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion

In this 'The Best Ever' episode, Jalada and Sefran try to agree on which game in The Elder Scrolls series is the best; Oblivion or Skyrim? Related reading from the show:

• IMDB page for Oblivion
• IMDB page for Skyrim
• Procedural terrain sculpting in Oblivion
• Enemies in Oblivion
• Enemies in Skyrim
• Morrowind speed-run using game breaking spells
• Oblivion AI fail (one video of many out there)
• Horse armor reception back in 2006

Intro & outro music: JACKS - Runaway Fashion

In this episode of Octal FM, Jalada tells Sefran what he thinks of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD for the Wii U. Spoiler warning: Contains minor spoilers about Twilight Princess and a general discussion of the Zelda timeline. Related reading from the show:

• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and The Wind Waker HD.
• Zelda teaser trailer from Spaceworld 2000 (linked video is actually a longer cut than the one we used to watch).
• The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia (affiliate link).
• Copy of the Hyrule Historia timeline.
• Jadusable Wiki, the official database for the Haunted Majora's Mask Cartridge story (Elegy of Emptiness creepypasta).
• Twilight Princess Wii, Gamecube and Wii U graphics comparison.
• Issues when you force Dark Souls to run at 60fps on PC.

Music:

• Intro: JACKS - Runaway Fashion.
• Outro: Life of a Bowling Pin by Hylian Lemon for ocremix.org.