Questions over Serial emulation and Net-Play suggestion
 

Hi,

first the question : If play over serial emulated over LAN/WAN?
(so if i have the game on 2 PC, can i play an game who is designed to play multiplayer (only 2 ;)) ) over serial in this way ? [popolous 2 as example] )

And an suggestion for Net-play : This feature is mainle her to play games who was designed to play with other players on the same amiga, play over LAN/WAN .... as an addition - it would be nice to hide an part of the screen horizontal or vertical ... by many games who play one against one - the screen is splitted - it would be nice to hide the own part from the opponent - and maybe as a side effect - reduce the emulation amount.
(The black part musst not be drawn)

Regards
R-TEAM

Possibly, yes (I haven't tried). It might work with Linux and OS X (no serial support in the Windows version). I'd guess it is less likely it will work over the Internet. The games might expect a certain latency (the original communication is over a local-link serial cable after all), and may not work with higher latencies caused by piping the serial data over Internet.

Only one way to find out for sure though...

This would not work without game-specific hacks (how else would the system know when to obscure what parts of the screen? - remember that the screens should not be obscured at all times). So I'm not interested in this.

The entire state must still be emulated - just leaving out the rendering of part of the screen won't make it significantly more efficient.

Hi,

I have more thinked with an "Black" overlay over the screen who the emulated machine dont know - adjustet by simple set the percent the screen is "blacked" for which player -> Player 1 50% Black from right - or so ..

as example for Blacking one part of the screen would be Siedler with 2 players - or BattleIsle - an simple 50% of the screen Black (for every player the oponnent side) would it make more interesting ... and switchable from the F12 menu ...

Regards
R-TEAM

Yes, I understood what you meant -and yes, it would in theory work if configured and toggled manually by the users. But you wouldn't have any guarantee that the other player also applies the overlay ;-)

Hi,

I see here different solutions ...
one is - the config over the black area is configured before play on the server side (maybe over an database for diff games ....) and switched on/off simultan for both players ... so after the game is ready to start, one of the 2 player aktivate the black area.If one of the 2 player switch the area off - the other player will see the aera is going off and can complain.
An other solution - one of the clients is the "master" and have the control over the black aera - if still every time the "black" on both player screens on OR off i see no problem ...(and syncing should not an problem - dont know an game with more than 2 player who make this sense - so only 2 clients involved)

Regards
R-TEAM

I think Frode is trying to say that the gain from this feature is quite little and thus it's not a priority. There are many other things left to be done, so features like this which are only useful for a couple of games have a quite low rating on the todo list :)

Hi,

no problem :)
It was only an suggestion - and i know other things are more important.

Regards
R-TEAM