salvato@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Vincent H. Salvato) (05/09/91)
I just recentley purchased Robosport. The game is great! One of the main reasons I purchased it was because it said that it could be hooked up to 4 macs at once via appletalk, and also be played by a serial hook up, and 2 player by modem. I have tried modem play and it works great. I haven't tried serial. When I try to use appletalk it does not seem to work. I set the primary computer up and it waits for the secondary players, but when I start up the secondary computer it scans for a primary and says that it dosen't find any primarys. These macs are in the same zone, because if I recall it says somewhere that the earlier version dosen't go across zones. If anyone has gotten it to work over appletalk please let me know. I would really like to have four people playing this over appletalk. Please Email me or Post. Thanks Vince Salvato salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu
benser@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Earl Benser) (05/09/91)
I've played RoboSport over my AppleTalk at home. Seems to work fine.
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*******************************************************************************unokirs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert S. Unoki) (05/10/91)
In article <9105090019.AA06214@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Vincent H. Salvato) writes: > > I just recentley purchased Robosport. The game is great! One of I agree!! Robosport is a great tactical game. >tried serial. When I try to use appletalk it does not seem to work. I set >the primary computer up and it waits for the secondary players, but when I >start up the secondary computer it scans for a primary and says that it >dosen't find any primarys. This could be a problem of serialization of the games. Robosport may require 4 unique copies of the game. I could not find anything in the documentation that indicates whether or not this is true. By the way, have any other Robosport players noticed that the computer seems to better in the suburbs? I find that they don't do as well in the rubble arenas because of the irregularness of terrain. I haven't had much experience with the computer areans, yet. rob -- Robert S. Unoki unokirs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (standard disclaimer, please)
robertj@Autodesk.COM (Young Rob Jellinghaus) (05/10/91)
In article <12116@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> unokirs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Robert S. Unoki) writes: >In article <9105090019.AA06214@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> salvato@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Vincent H. Salvato) writes: >>tried serial. When I try to use appletalk it does not seem to work. I set >>the primary computer up and it waits for the secondary players, but when I >>start up the secondary computer it scans for a primary and says that it >>dosen't find any primarys. > >This could be a problem of serialization of the games. Robosport may require >4 unique copies of the game. I could not find anything in the documentation >that indicates whether or not this is true. Nope, I've played on two Macs with the same copy (I know, I know, it was only once) and it worked. Over Appletalk. But actually this was with both computers directly connected--no zones involved. I think that "RoboSport doesn't work with zones" means that if there are AppleTalk zones on the network RoboSport won't deal with them--the Macs have to be directly linked together for it to work at all. >By the way, have any other Robosport players noticed that the computer seems >to better in the suburbs? I find that they don't do as well in the rubble >arenas because of the irregularness of terrain. I haven't had much experience >with the computer areans, yet. Don't know. I do know that the suburbs are tough because there's no real cover--once you come out onto that street it becomes Missile Madness and everyone gets shot to hell. Ferocious computer in the suburbs can be tough! >Robert S. Unoki -- Rob Jellinghaus | "Next time you see a lie being spread or Autodesk, Inc. | a bad decision being made out of sheer robertj@Autodesk.COM | ignorance, pause, and think of hypertext." {decwrl,uunet}!autodesk!robertj | -- K. Eric Drexler, _Engines of Creation_