On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 08:00:04AM -0600, Darryl Palmer Jr wrote: > I remember that was one goal of my porting the server code to work on NT. > My goals have slightly increased and I wanted to also make it possible for > people to write their own robots, and maybe steal some of the thunder from > robo-soccer. I have switched to rewriting the server in Java. It still > remains to be seen if the server can realistically handle 16+ clients, but > the code currently isn't really that optimized and it will have to wait > until January or so when I can test it. Why Java? We have it in C now. The server code has nothing in it that should not execute fine as C compiled under Cygwin, in order to simulate the Netrek universe. The only issue left is to merge the code into a monolithic process rather than split processes. For that we need some heavy C clue and a bit of time. This would be for the Cygwin port only, not for UNIX. The advantage of split processes is considerable. -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/