Andrew K. Bressen wrote:
Brian Foley <bfoley at compsoc.nuigalway.ie>
writes:
There's also Bolo, a networked tank game for
the BBC Micro written in
1987. Stuart Cheshire's thesis on the subject can be read at
http://www.lgm.com/bolo/guides/dissertation/
Oh my. He built an RS-232 ring topology by breaking the normal
tx/rcv pairings out to different destinations.
That is so gross, yet so cool.
Just like MIDIMaze, which used the MIDI connections in all Atari ST
machines as a crude network?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI_Maze
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