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From: Mark.Dickman@elmail.co.uk (Mark )
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Subject: Re: pc-side server (was Re: pc file handling ioctl etc)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 11:54:02 GMT
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>
>I think the main reason this hasn't been looked at is due to the
>use of the serial connection making things slow;
>ie the sending of data packets between the Yarozes would be
>far too slow for playable games.
Serial connection is slow? What about all the linkup games currently
in existence.

May I point out at this point the slowness of 28.8/33.6 modems which
are used in TCP/IP-IPX based network games (eg. Doom, Quake). Seeing
as you can drive a Yaroze at 115200bps, you can get approx 240bytes
(NTSC) 288bytes (PAL) or of data into the Yaroze per frame refresh. I
don't know what kind of processor load this would impose, but surely
it can't be that high? 

>Will think about it though.

Have a process running on the PC as a server to just download world
data to the Yaroze, and talk TCP/IP to a server housed somewhere at
SCE[EAI]? :-) If you can't then I can probably get a server housed on
our DMZ. I'll have to think a bit more about this... 

<FX: runs off burbling about a Syndicate Wars-type game played over
the internet.. :-) >

Or am I talking rubbish?

Mark, off to chat to more techies about bandwidth, protocol overheads,
etc...