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Re: CF: Client protocol and low-bandwidth links

On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Philip Brown wrote:

> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 20:36:11 -0800 (PST)
> From: Philip Brown <philb@csua.berkeley.edu>
> To: James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>
> Cc: crossfire@ifi.uio.no
> Subject: Re: CF: Client protocol and low-bandwidth links
> 
> >>>>[From James Cameron]
>     Bob Tanner wrote:
>     > Of the other "Free" games on the Internet I look at netrek as a good
>     > model for client/server deployment. The server is unix and clients are
>     > all over the board. Since I also run a pickup netrek server I can tell
>     > the majority of the clients on the server are Windows based.
>     
>     I'm with Bob on this one.  I'm the librarian for the development team
>     for Netrek server.  The clients run on anything, and the Win-API
>     specific code on the most common client is very simply an extension
>     of the X code that is used on UNIX systems.
>     
>     Get Crossfire running as client/server on UNIX systems, separating out
>     the X code into a module on it's own, and then the conversion to a
>     Win-API platform should be relatively straightforward.
> 
> You're not clear on the issue here.
> That's already been DONE. "All" that remains, is to find someone wiling to
> put in the time to code a full windoze version.
> That has not been achieved.
> 
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If the client is going to be playable over PPP/28.8kbps I might consider
trying to get the client compiled on Win32.  Otherwise, it wouldn't be
worth my time, because that's the way I'd like to play it - at home
connecting to crossfire servers on the Internet over a slow link.  I've
been compiling some things lately for Win32, so the "mess" is fresh in my
mind, etc.  I use Watcom C/C++ 10.6 (if that matters - I'm not paying for
VC++ and I hate MS).  Also, I probably have enough tools to make a full
DirectX + DirectSound + MIDI + ??? client.  Anyone think that would
increase the popularity of crossfire?  I've fallen behind on version... so
maybe someone could point me to the code that would be suitable for such
an endeavor.

	Ed

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