[Coco] CoCo network games?

[Fedor Steeman]

Now don't get me started...

I am already imagining games where two players on separate CoCo's stalk each
other in a maze armed with a gun. But I have yet to go beyond the basic
understanding of assembly language and write my first game that probably
will be arcade-style first time around.

But there are perspectives...

Fedor

On 02/06/06, Robert Emery <theother_bob at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that this type of game would be a hot seller compared to other new
> CoCo software. I personally would like to see a 3-D racing game with 2 (or
> more?) CoCos networked and playing together. I'd like to see it use
> something like Sockmaster's Gloom 3-D engine to really show off the CoCo3
> graphics, but perhaps with a "wireframe" mode that would work with a CoCo1
> or 2. Of course, we'll be lucky if we see any new games developed, and we'll
> like it whether we like it or not! ;)
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>
> Of course! How could I forget!
> <snip>
> Since P51 probably is the only real-time network game ever made for the
> CoCo
> it seems there is a niche here for more productions. Especially since a
> lot
> of people nowadays have several CoCos standing...
>
> Fedor
>
> On 01/06/06, L. Curtis Boyle <curtisboyle at sasktel.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 13:40:25 -0600, Fedor Steeman <petrander at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Has there ever been any attempt made to write a "network game" for the
> > > CoCo?
> > > I.e. a game where you hook up two CoCo e.g. through the serial port
> and
> > > play
> > > against each other on two separate machines. Would that be at all
> > > possible?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Fedor
> > >
> >
> >     There have been several, from the Coco 1/2 days. Aside from
> > multi-player BBS games, there have direct link versions of Checkers,
> > Chess, Othello and, probably the most famous, P-51 Attack Flight
> Simulator
> > from Tom Mix. (See: http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/p-51.html)
> >
> >
>
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