68K network gaming?

[defor]

Anyone here play any of the big 68k network games still?
Is anyone interested in playing some of them online, etc?
I used to play Marathon, Avara, Bolo, and Spectre back in the day...
I think a few of these need the use of a AT to TCP bridge software... forgot which was best...


Anyone?

[Scott Baret]

Does anyone know where to get Wagon Train 1848? I'd love to use that on the educational network.

[QuadSix50]

I would love to partake in such activities, but alas my Quadra 650 is performing its role as a web server.

[FunnymanSE30]

I used to play bolo all the time over localtalk/appletalk

[coius]

Spectre Challenger was the BEST game I have played on a 68k. Then there is MYST, but Then again, that wasn't a network game

[iMac600]

I suggest taking a look here for 68k Network Games.

http://home.hawaii.rr.com/m68kg/Netgames68k.html

[MacTCP]

Ares is my favorite 68k game. Maybe I should register it.

[TylerEss]

It's such a pity that so few of the 68k network games support TCP/IP.

Nobody's on Internet Bolo Buddy anymore, and you can't play Spectre over the interblogs without lots of work.

Maybe somebody should start up a 68k Internet gaming club.

[iMac600]

We'll have to give Marathon a shot. Afaik, you should be able to manually enter an IP address in to some of these. Gridz may work as well.

[MacJunky]

Maybe somebody should start up a 68k Internet gaming club.

Could probably just use the IRC channel as I can't see hordes of people looking to get in on this.

[Quadraman]

We'll have to give Marathon a shot. Afaik, you should be able to manually enter an IP address in to some of these. Gridz may work as well.

If I can get a copy of the software legally, I'd be willing to donate some clock cycles on one of my Quadras to it.

[TylerEss]

Marathon is open source now, and the data files were offered as free(as in beer)ware. Get it from http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/

Marathon doesn't support TCP/IP gaming, though. You need an AppleTalk-in-TCP tunnel. Such a thing is created with NetLink Remote in combination with TCPSerial.

[Quadraman]

Marathon is open source now, and the data files were offered as free(as in beer)ware. Get it from http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/

Marathon doesn't support TCP/IP gaming, though. You need an AppleTalk-in-TCP tunnel. Such a thing is created with NetLink Remote in combination with TCPSerial.

Hmmm...the connecting hardware/software sounds complicated to set up and hard to get.

[TylerEss]

It's a bit complicated: basically you install a "serial over the internet" extension and a "AppleTalk over serial" extension and then point them at each other. You need to enter your opponent's IP address as a "telephone number"

I'm thinking about putting together a page about it, and trying to get some of the MLAers involved. I'd love to have somebody to play Spectre VR against.

[macgreg]

I would be keen on playing Bolo over the net! I used to play it a lot in first year Uni...

[CaryMG]

Man would I like 68K network gaming ....

If someone could manage that with "System6" & "Marathon" that'd be great.

But I was thinking of paying someone to make "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" competitive online
& starting my own project where we'd share a flatshade polygon virtual world.
A combination of LucasArts's "Habitat" & "Second Life", if you will.


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[TylerEss]

Marathon requires only System 6.0.7, and I think you could get NetLink/TCPSerial to run on there by adding the right stuff here and there...

The real limitation of that being that it's only one-on-one; it'd be much better to have a real client-server AppleTalk-in-IP VPN solution so we could all link our old Macs into a huge AppleTalk network... yet another thing I'm not quite a good enough programmer for.

With that, we could probably live your dream of multiplayer Chuck Yegar craziness.

[RadioPatrol]

I have played the windows port over IP on a LAN ...... i dont see why you could not do the same on a mac ?

Oh yeah and back in Marathon and Durandal days i would go over to a friends work <he was the LAN Admin> on a Fri Night after everone had gone and we would Frag over the lan <Coax LAN> till the wee hrs of Sat Morning over Beer and Pizza ...... Running out the door b4 the weekend lab tech showed up @ 8 - back when a Quadra 840 was a hot machine ......... (they used one for a file server)

Marathon is open source now, and the data files were offered as free(as in beer)ware. Get it from http://trilogyrelease.bungie.org/

Marathon doesn't support TCP/IP gaming, though. You need an AppleTalk-in-TCP tunnel. Such a thing is created with NetLink Remote in combination with TCPSerial.

[Quadraman]

So what precisely is needed to do this?

[CaryMG]

... it'd be much better to have a real client-server AppleTalk-in-IP VPN solution so we could all link our old Macs
into a huge AppleTalk network
With that, we could probably live your dream of multiplayer
Chuck Yegar craziness.

SWEET !

But I shouldn't've said "Chuck Yeager's Air Combat" .... lol
I mean "Heroes Of The 357th".
Click here ta see it > "Heroes Of The 357th"


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