[Coco] multiplayer game using wireless pak

Sun Aug 30 16:21:43 EDT 2009

¡Gracias!

The reason why I'm doing this game is because when I was a kid always dreamed to connect two Cocos, but here in Mexico I couldn't find  a moderm or a RS-232 Pak. I tryed with the Coco's serial interface and with two cassette players cables with little success. In 1989, my father bought a Tandy 1000 SL and I sold my Coco 3 to buy more hardware ( maybe a hard disk, I can't remember now). The Tandy 1000 SL was faster and GW Basic was OK for me, but I was really shocked with the inability of MS-DOS to do multiprocessing and I regretted to selling it for a while. Obviosly, the time passed and I could connect two PCs with a null modem and played "Doom" with my friends using ethernet cards in 1994. In 2001 I did a multiplayer backgammon game in Java for a mexican portal.

Finally, two years ago I bought severals Cocos in ebay and started to have fun with the Tandy's little marvel again. I'm making my dream comes true thanks to Roger Taylor's Deluxe Wireless RS-232 Pak. The real magic is in his hardware.

More than making an elaborated multiplayer game, I want to do a proof of concept.

Jorge Machin

> Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:57:34 -0400
> From: linville at tuxdriver.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] multiplayer game using wireless pak
> 
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:57:53AM -0400, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> > Jorge is a software developer in México. Besides dedicating time to the
> > usual Windoze fare, he is also one of the very few active CoCo users
> > there. He maintains a blog (in Spanish - run it through Google's translation
> > services). The first part of the wireless based CoCo game is here:
> > http://www.machin.com.mx/archives/2227
> > 
> > The second part, with a program listing now is at:
> > 
> > http://www.machin.com.mx/archives/2404
> 
> Hey, that's cool -- bienvenidos amigos!
> 
> John
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