kevin@harvard.ARPA (Kevin Crowston) (05/30/85)
I'm trying to get the MazeWars game programme to work, but am having
some trouble doing so. If anyone has gotten the programme to work,
I'd appreciate some advice as to what I am doing wrong. The programme
runs fine, but seperately; the two programmes come up but they don't
seem to notice each other.
I don't have AppleTalk, so I followed the advice in a previous letter
on how to hook up two Macs without it. The letter suggested using the
cable that came with the development system, or "two imagewriter cables
back to back, connecting pins 7 to 7, 2 to 3 and 3 to 2" (my paraphrase).
Looking at an imagewriter cable, I noted that it had (going from the 9-pin
Mac side to the 23-pin ImageWriter side) pins 5 to 2, 9 to 3 and 3 and 8
(shorted together) to 7, so I made a cable with two 9-pin connectors,
connecting 3 and 8 (shorted together) to 3 and 8, 5 to 9 and 9 to 5.
Question 1: Is this a reasonable cable? Where do I plug it in (the
printer or external device plug)?
I then went to a local dealer and copied the system file that comes with
the LaserWriter to get the various resources (two drivers, some init code,
etc.) As the previous letter indicated, these resources are already in
the system file. There was also a desk accessory, Choose Printer, also
refered to in that letter. However, I wasn't sure what I wanted to choose
using this DA. Also, on the 128K Mac (I have a 512K Mac and a 128K Mac)
the AppleTalk Connect button was greyed out, but not on the 512K Mac.
In neither case was there any choice in the list of printers besides
ImageWriter. I didn't run any of the other software on the disk
(there were some applications like install printer, etc., because I
accidentally deleted the disk right after I copied the system files.
Question 2: What do I want to choose with the Choose Printer DA? Is
there support for AppleTalk on a 128K Mac or do I need two 512K Macs for
this game? Should I run some other application to initialize the
AppleTalk stuff?
Any advice anyone can offer will be most appreciated. As I said, I've
gotten the programme to run; it's frustrating not being able to get
two people into the maze.
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Kevin Crowston UUCP: {seismo,ut-sally}!harvard!kevin
MIT Sloan School of Management ARPA: kevin@harvard.ARPA