Good idea. And realistic. And it's even easier: You just define what
particular keys will be accepted from remote computer, and you send just the
keys (in both directions). Not screens. So it's quite fast on network. Even
more than 2 computers can play together this way. You know, the emulator is
synced, so you just send the keys (with timestamps) in both directions.
Have you seen .AIR recording capability of ASCD emulator? It's based on the
very same principle. Maybe something will want to extend it to network
gaming, since it's pretty simple to. (I'm not interested because lack of
time.) If I remember correctly, I added .AIR support even to Win32 SimCoupe,
but these changes never went into the original development source code
version.... ;-)
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Mgr.(MSc.) Ales Keprt (also known as Aley)
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Dept. of Computer Science, VSB Technical University
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Will McGugan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Sam Users" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:32 PM
Subject: Multiplayer Sam
Hi Folks,
I've been mulling over an idea for playing Sam games over a network.
Imagine if you will, a version of the very excellent SimCoupe that acted
as a server which would send the current screen to clients (with VNC like
encoding), and also act on key presses sent by the clients. The end result
would be like multiple people each with a virtual hand on the Sam keyboard
playing a single game. It should be quite feasible over a LAN, or just a
fast net connection.
Anyone considered something like this? Alas, I dont know if I could devote
enough time to work on it. Why must good ideas always require lots of hard
work?! ;)
Regarding SimCoupe, who is currently maintaining it? The only version I
can find on simcoupe.org is 0.81a, but I have version 0.90 beta 10
installed - and I cant remember where I got it from..
BTW. Happy New Year all! :)
Regards,
Will McGugan
