Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Peter Armstrong" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Internet thingy Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:40:02 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 41 Message-ID: <9l0kuh$8cf2@www.netyaroze-europe.com> References: <9kuse8$5g95@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kuuac$5g97@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kuvtp$5g98@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9kv20p$5g910@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9l08n9$5g911@www.netyaroze-europe.com> <9l0cbo$8cf1@www.netyaroze-europe.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ch5as01-65-236-72.cw-visp.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 "Jon Prestidge (Jon@surfed.to)" wrote in message news:9l0cbo$8cf1@www.netyaroze-europe.com... > > I wasn't really enjoying writing it > > as I did with the Amiga version, and > > I don't know whether or not I'll go > > back to it. > > ... is it the same map/story/characters as Lords of Midnight? (I wouldn't > know since I didn't play it on the Speccy). Would it help to write a > different game but using the same engine perhaps? The original idea was to have Lom as one of many scenarios that could be played, and have a scenario editor so players could create their own maps (but probably keep the characters/names to simplify things). The Lom story would more than likely be dropped to make it a general multiplayer war game. I've just lost the interest to continue with it, getting stuck on the AI didn't help :). I want to write a war game of some sort eventually, perhaps I'll go back to it at some point. If you're interested in Lom Chris Wild wrote straight PC conversions of it and Doomdark's Revenge (the sequel), they're available at http://www.icemark.com/, he also wrote a Windows version with new graphics that's worth checking out. At the moment I'm reading up on car dynamics, I've forgotten most of the maths and physics I learnt at school so it's slow going, but it's an interesting subject so I'll stick at it. > Have you been able to test your internet connecting software? If you need > someone else to test it with I'll give it a go....however I'd prefer an exe > that connects to the Yaroze at the lower speed of 57600 since I've got my > Yaroze 'settled' to beable to work with CW and Gnu at that speed. No I havent tested it yet so that would be cool. It's no problem to change it to run at 57600bps. I'll make the changes to the files and stick them on the ftp, I'll post a link here. Thanks, Peter