At 12:19 06/12/98 +0100, you wrote:
>> [257 RobotZ]
>> <after a minute of puzzlement>
>Sorry for not being clear, but you got it right in the end ;-)
>
>> Anyway, I think that a competition of 256 or 257 robots will be very close
>> to impossible to play. You'd have to have a *huge* playing field to make
>> it a bit interesting, which has to be updated and kept consistent over all
>> connected computers...
>It sounds like you want every computer to calculate the position of every
>robot. The way I see it, every computer keeps the program of 1 robot (or
>more, if you're multitasking, which I am planning to include) and not that
>of the others. Only the other's coordinates are sent through the net. As
>someone stated before, you don't need to send any id, indeed.
I think you're forgetting the latency problem. Explaining: All the
MSXes would be connected by the joystick port, right? So, if you've 16 MSX
connected, the first MSX would be connected to the second, the second to the
third... And finally, the sixteenth to the first, so we'll have a 16-MSX ring.
Suppose you want to send some signals from the fourth to the
twientieth computer. So, your packages would be sent through eight
computers, and you'll spend time sending this file, maybe some seconds.
Sending a file through a LAN is a matter of time: The faster, the better.
Into a game, it's a life-and-death problem: Just imagine that you lose a
game 'cause of network lag.
So, does anyone has thought about a... switch, like the Ethernet
switches, mostly common into Beowulf supercomputers, to be used into our
networked MSXes? I don't think it would be pretty difficult to be done.
And about the game: I don't think 256 computers connected would be a
great idea... Huge amount of packages running over the LAN, it would be a
great mess.
ByE!
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