Fragged LAN Manager
v0.6.65 — updated 8 July 2026 — Free for Windows
Fragged LAN Manager is a full rewrite of the old Autonomous LAN Party (ALP) server that LAN organisers have loved for years — rebuilt from scratch on ASP.NET Core, with every feature of the original brought forward and a good number of new ones on top.
One admin installs the server for the event: tournaments with real bracket generation and seeding, an SVG seating chart with drag-and-drop zones, live server & player monitoring, map voting, a public players directory, a shared jukebox with request voting, and a "Marathon" leaderboard that tracks placements across the whole weekend. The server also hosts its own download for the WPF tray companion client, so attendees just grab it from the event's Fragged page — toast notifications for messages and events, one-click hardware detection, and a profile/social-link editor that never needs a browser.
This download is the server, for whoever's organising the event. Attendees don't need anything from here — once the server's running, they get the companion client straight from it.
✦ Features
Event management
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Tournaments & brackets
Seed teams, lock the roster, generate a real bracket, and report match results — with staged locks so nobody edits seeding mid-tournament.
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Seating chart
A drag-and-drop SVG floor plan with colour-coded zones, so attendees can find their seat before they even arrive.
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Live server monitoring
Query game servers in real time and drill into any one of them to see exactly who's online, on what map, right now.
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Map voting
A per-tournament map pool with post-event star ratings, so next time's map list picks itself.
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The Marathon
A weekend-long leaderboard that scores every tournament's final placements together, so the most consistent player wins overall — not just the best at one game.
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Logistics & food runs
Pizza ordering with an admin tally of totals owed, plus game requests and tech support tickets, all triaged from one dashboard.
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Jukebox
Scans a shared music folder and lets everyone vote on what plays next — a proper communal jukebox widget right on the homepage.
Companion client
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Tray icon & toasts
Lives in the system tray and pops a toast notification for new messages, so you never have to tab out mid-match to check the site.
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Hardware & profile
One click reads your CPU/GPU/RAM straight off your PC — no typing your specs by hand — then publishes them plus your socials to the public players directory.
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One-click pairing
Install once, then pair with whichever event's Fragged LAN Manager server you're attending — no manual server address entry required.
✦ Screenshots
Event homepage — stats, shoutbox, news, and more at a glance
WPF companion client — schedule at a glance, one click to Profile, Benchmarks, Caffeine, Messages, Food Runs, or Games
✦ Changelog
v0.6.65 — latest (retro client reliability fix + admin security hardening)
- Fixed a bug where the Windows 95 Retro Client installer could fail to run on genuine old hardware with "not a valid 32-bit application" — a modern build flag the Win95 loader doesn't understand has been disabled, so it installs reliably now
- The plain-HTML retro downloads page no longer lists individual game installers — install games through the Fragged Client (Retro Client included) instead, which is now the fully supported path
- Hardened the admin site-branding settings (custom colors/fonts) against a theoretical stored-injection edge case in how they're rendered, backed by a new automated security test suite covering the app's common web-attack surfaces
v0.6.65 — retro downloads page + DOS installer track
- New genuine 16-bit MS-DOS installer track for Duke Nukem 3D — a full-screen, colour, 90s-shareware-style installer with real progress feedback, running on any DOS-capable PC with no Windows install at all
- The "Download Retro Client (Win95)" companion app now shows real download progress instead of appearing to hang on a 40-50MB transfer
- The plain-HTML retro downloads page (for browsers as old as Internet Explorer 3) is now organised into separate tables — Retro Client, Drivers, DirectX, Utils, and Game Installers
v0.6.65 — Windows 95 "Retro Client" support
- New event-scoped option (off by default) for genuine Windows 95 machines to join the party — enable it and a "Download Retro Client" link appears on the site
- The retro client is a brand-new, from-scratch app written in plain C against only APIs present since Windows 95's original 1995 release, with no C-runtime DLL dependency and nothing newer than an original 486/Pentium-class CPU supports
- Same login → browse games/schedule → install-a-game flow as the regular companion client, just built for genuinely old hardware
v0.6.65 — companion client install button fix
- Fixed the companion client's Games screen not showing the "install from server" button for games that had an installer available but weren't installed locally yet
- The server now recognises "multi" installer packages (ones bundling more than one game engine/build) as valid for either 32-bit or 64-bit machines, instead of leaving them unclassified and unofferable
v0.6.65 — bug fixes
- Fixed a bright white panel on the Game List page clashing with the rest of the site's dark theme, and laid its cover art out alongside the description instead of stacked above it
- Fixed the admin dashboard missing links to the Games and Game Installs pages
- Fixed the game-installs and music folders not being created automatically on a fresh install
- Fixed a generic uninstaller icon showing in Windows' Add/Remove Programs instead of the Fragged icon
v0.6.65 — updated build
- Save/load named seating layouts (admin/staff) — switch between different venue shapes without rebuilding the chart each time
- The companion client's "install a missing game" flow now passes your player name, preferred resolution, and invert-mouse setting through to a game's installer when it supports them, instead of you retyping them
v0.6.65 — first public release
- New Jukebox — scans a shared music folder and lets everyone vote on what plays next, shown as a homepage widget
- One-click hardware detection in the companion client — reads your CPU/GPU/RAM instead of typing it in
- Configurable server port during install, for organisers who already have something else on the default port
- Homepage dashboard layout pass — schedule now sits full-width above the hardware/jukebox widgets
- Assorted fixes: a form-validation display bug, a companion client crash on malformed server addresses, and various navbar polish
- Full feature-parity pass against the original ALP: change password, game requests, pizza ordering tally, tech support triage, live server/player drill-down, map voting, and tournament seeding/lock workflow
- The Marathon — a weekend-long leaderboard scored from hand-entered tournament placements
- Rebuilt seating chart with real drag-and-drop and colour-coded zones
- Public players directory and self-service profile editor, including gaming rig hardware
- WPF tray companion client with toast notifications, one-click server pairing, and a self-contained Windows installer