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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Apple II Game Server, anyone? | Posted by: iamdigitalman on 2008-07-29 11:30:52
I finally got this working!! For anyone who is curious as to what it looks like, I made a video of it on youtube. It's running on my Platinum //e.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuRpcEbY2h0
Enjoy.
-digital 😉
| Posted by: luddite on 2008-07-29 13:20:17
Pretty cool, though the video cuts off early. Does the game server allow you to add your own games or is the list fixed?
| Posted by: iamdigitalman on 2008-07-29 13:41:55
yeah, I was using the camera on my PSP, and I remember it telling me it ran out of space. If I had a bigger memory card, I would be able to do a longer version.
As for the games, I think they are fixed, which is too bad because I could see this as huge potential for other apps, not just games.
Although, there is a games folder located at a2gameserver_full_2/lib/data/games, but the "images" (or what I assume to be) are in a weird format with no extension, and these files are unusable by my Apple II emulator, Catakig. There is also a games.xml file in the data folder.
Also, in the first iteration of this application, there were only half as many games, 128. I also would like to see this become an open source project, which it is not as of now.
-digital 😉
| Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-07-29 14:05:51
Yeah, the lighting made it tricky to see, next time just put on a desk lamp. Though great video!
| Posted by: luddite on 2008-07-29 21:35:49
As for the games, I think they are fixed, which is too bad because I could see this as huge potential for other apps, not just games. That's exactly what I was thinking.
| Posted by: david__schmidt on 2008-07-29 23:06:29
I also would like to see this become an open source project, which it is not as of now. It is now. Blurry has bounced back and forth a bit between Sourceforge and Berlios, but you can get the source here:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6879
The protocol he defines is pretty cool. I think he called it SOS - Serial Operating System. You can specify a hunk of data to transfer to a point in memory, specify a starting address, and transfer control. Very cool.
| Posted by: iamdigitalman on 2008-07-31 20:44:35
Ah, sweet. I just also discovered ADTPro, which works a treat on the platinum. It's kinda like the A2GS except you need a disk drive, but I do like the loading of prodos over serial, which would come in handy.
my IIe is getting a real workout now, I thought these machines don't get warm like other computers, being 1mhz and all, but if you use the serial connection a lot, they can get pretty toasty.
-digital 😉
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