On Mon, 13 Jun 1994 18:40:40 +0100, Mars Bar said: > Networking on 8-bits was always a sad waste of time. It was usually much > quicker to pass a disk around...
Well I've already mentioned one use I have for the network (that is, for sending programs from the +3 to the Sam - since my +3 does not have a Sam format disk drive attached, unfortunately). But has anyone ever considered any networked games? I already have one which works between Spectrums using RS232 - it is a hack of the submarine game which was published in Your Computer in November 1984 (or somewhere around there). Instead of trying to shoot down another submarine generated randomly by the computer, you shoot down the submarine which is being driven by the person on the other end of the wire. It's a bit cumbersome, but it works! There is a game doing the rounds here called "xblast" (which, as you will no doubt have guessed, runs on X windows). It is a version of something called "bomberman" which I personally have never seen, but the great thing about it is that each of four players can use his own terminal... imc
