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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Programmer seeking game ideas
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Date: 5 Nov 90 21:20:34 GMT
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In article <1990Nov3.212628.22893@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> smsmith@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M. Smith) writes:
>In article <1025@lclark.UUCP> hulsej@lclark.UUCP (Jose Hulse) writes:
[...]
>This is a fascinating subject to me, and I've been wondering for some
>time whether anybody would try it.  The difficulty in creating
>such a game would be to try to figure out how to run the thing on one
>computer instead of on MVS or instead of on two computers connected 
>by modems.
What's MVS?
What's wrong with AppleTalk? You set up one machine as a server, so
that it stores all the data about the game, & run the others
subordinate.  Then you've got real-time interaction between
the parties.
As for running it on one machine, you're probably right--you'd
have to have multiple monitors & keyboards.  But that is probably
a less common setup than AppleTalk, especially since *all* Macs
have the network hardware, but only the more expensive ones can
even think about multiple monitors without extensive hardware
mods; and the Plus and lower models cannot have multiple
keyboards.  Granted, I can see why running on one machine is
cheaper than 2, but I seriously doubt anybody is gonna get
a 2nd monitor & kbd just for a game.  If I had a Mac, & I wanted
to play this with a friend who also did, I could just bring over
my machine & hook them together.
There's also the fact that campus setups often have AppleTalk,
but rarely have consultants who will let you install a second
monitor in their machines.
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