Sorry, I am really busy now, so I really can't continue this. I will end up
with a short message:
IT'S ALREADY DONE AND IT WORKS!
If this is not enough, I can't help you.
Note that two years ago I also worked on a commercial PC game (Hidden &
Dangerous 2), and I did the networking stuff., so I feel quite skilled. :-)
Networks never be so fast, and it always worked. Gnerally, delay upto 100ms
is usually quite acceptable in gameplay, and if you get roundtrip ping under
50ms, it's quite good gameplay. I think 50ms isn't unreal.
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Mgr.(MSc.) Ales Keprt (also known as Aley)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** www.keprt.cz *** ICQ: 82357182
Dept. of Computer Science, VSB Technical University
Ostrava, CZ - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.cs.vsb.cz
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Cooke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Monday, January 03, 2005 10:52 AM
Subject: RE: Multiplayer Sam
Aley wrote:
No complete dump! You just need to start with the same
emulator.exe file, the same ROM files, and DSK/TAP file. Then
you send keys (+ additional I/O input, if it's random).
That's all you need to handle.
Sam doesn't have any ability of real random number
generation. It's never random. All pseudo-random numbers are
generated from register values, which are always all the
same, except I/O input. So I/O is the only thing you need to store.
That won't work. Sorry.
Games run on a 1/50th of a second clock. That's one tick every 20ms.
It takes 10ms to get to the first hop outside of my home on the network.
Which means that the minimum round trip - assuming perfect network
conditions - is 20ms. With that little leeway, the moment anything stalls,
everyones game will have to freeze. (Sometimes, I get 15ms to the local
backbone... Other times, I get 66ms).
Modern games go to HUGE lengths to get around network lag, including user
action prediction, interpolation, etc etc. (take a look at how they did it
on Halo 2 - you can find the article on howitworks.com ).
You could get Chaos to work, because it's a turn-by-turn game. That's
about
it.
