Vice City MP and Science Network Computers

Last week in IT, Jack, Aidan and I started to set up some computers for a science class that wants to do networking with them. We had a bit of trouble with room and the layout of how we were going to have them, but eventually we got there. The computers we are using have removable optical drives (much like laptop optical drives) and out of all the computers we are setting up only two have optical drives, so we had to set up 2 at a time. This doesn't take too long as we only have to install Windows 2000 with no extra drivers or anything. We still have a few left to set up, we will be doing the remaining computers through this week.

Early on in the project for DIM I am doing with Phil and Jack, I had the idea of trying to get the mod Multi-Theft Auto (MTA) working to make some of our scenes a lot easier. During the above IT project when we got a little bored we started playing around on Vice City. After that Aidan and I had the idea of setting up a dedicated server for MTA. When we discovered MTA has no LAN support Aidan found another mod called Vice City MP which did have LAN support. We proceeded to set up the server for this using the switch already in the SIM lab. This wasn't working for us, we came to the conclusion that the switch we were using was blocking the port we needed to have open for VC MP. That could have been an easy fixed problem but the switch had been password protected and no one knew why, as no one had set it. So Roger got as a new one and it all works fine with the new one. We currently have 3 computers on the VC MP network.