hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) (09/15/90)
A friend and I tried, tried and tried to play Populous over 2400bd modems
I have an Ami and he has a 286.
AND WE COUDLN'T GET THE %%$$##@@??? THING TO WORK.
Anyone have any suggestions....
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> A friend and I tried, tried and tried to play Populous over 2400bd modems >I have an Ami and he has a 286. > > AND WE COUDLN'T GET THE %%$$##@@??? THING TO WORK. > >Anyone have any suggestions.... Please post those suggestions or add a copy to me. I haven't tried yet but, want to know if and how to make the Amiga - 286 connection work.
ngoh@boulder.Colorado.EDU (NGO HIEN D) (09/18/90)
I have had some success playing Populous between an Amiga 500 and a 286 clone. We played over two 2400 baud modems and only experienced the 'incompatible landscape' error a couple of times. I believe it occurred most frequently when one player attempted to alter some of the defaults on the options. Since both of our modems were Hayes compatible, we simply typed out the standard ATDT..... to connect to the other player who then just answered the call with ATA. One other annoyance was that my friend claimed his 286 to be going slow in some parts of the game (16 mhz with a fast VGA card), so I don't know if the complaint was real or just founded in his frustration with getting demolished....;-) Hope this helps someone.... Hien Ngo ngoh@tramp.colorado.edu ngoh@snoopy.colorado.edu
hounsell@chekov.UU.NET (Rob Hounsell) (09/19/90)
In article <1990Sep14.191643.29804@evax.arl.utexas.edu> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) writes: > > A friend and I tried, tried and tried to play Populous over 2400bd modems >I have an Ami and he has a 286. > > AND WE COUDLN'T GET THE %%$$##@@??? THING TO WORK. > >Anyone have any suggestions.... A friend and I both own Amiga 1000's, and have successfully played several sessions of Populous back-to-back. The only problems we had were in the modem setup (our company supplies us with error-correcting 9600-baud modems with lots of options which we had to get in line...). In terms of play, back-to-back tended to cause the mouse pointer to become a bit "jerky", but otherwise there wasn't any problem once we got it going. A couple more strategy points: To create lots of walkers once I have an area filled out with castles, I raise the ground one level near the castles, which forces them back to the smaller castle size and generates a walker. As soon as the walkers leave, I lower the ground I raised and restore the castles to full size. You can create LOTS of walkers this way. Second point: to raise ground out of a flat area like water, it is much quicker to raise the same point twice and then lower the peak (which produces a unit of level land 4 squares in area) than it is to click on 4 adjacent points. I suspect that it uses a tad more manna, though. One of my favourite games! Rob +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Rob Hounsell | | | UUNET: ...!chekov!hounsell | "You guys start coding, and I'll go | | BNR WAN: hounsell@nmerh4 | see what it is they need." | | PHONE: (613) 765-2904 | | | ESN: 395-2904 | Anon. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
dve@zooid.UUCP (David Mason) (09/20/90)
hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Col. Ames and Pixel) writes: > > > A friend and I tried, tried and tried to play Populous over 2400bd modems > I have an Ami and he has a 286. > > AND WE COUDLN'T GET THE %%$$##@@??? THING TO WORK. > We tried the same thing with an Amiga 500 and a 386.. did you have the same problem ("Incompatible Landscapes" after a few minutes of play)?