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- Hello everybody!
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- First of all a warm hi-five to y'all - it's been some time since I last
- wrote to the mailing list, but believe me, I've been paying attention, and
- by no means been lazying around doing nothing.
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- Second, a comment about v1.7, which is the last version I've been able to
- test, for reasons I'll get back to. I was deeply impressed with it, and
- look forward to seeing more version with more features coming up later! I
- especially liked the map - when will there be an interactive version, ie.
- one where only the stuff you've actually seen is shown?
-
- But back to the networking.
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- I've been working my butt off lately, sot eh time spent with my computer
- has been less than usual, but the time I spent trying to code some working
- networking stuff proved rather fruitful. Although i was unable to test it
- in reality, I believe I had the thing working (But being a rather poor
- assembler coder, it cost me blood, sweat and tears to get that far), and I
- was even working on the idea I had to get more speed out of the MIDI port
- - the thing might (Believe it or not!) work at sixteen times the original
- speed, giving about 500 kps. Don't get too much of a fuzz up about that -
- the speed causes a rather serious loss of transfer quality, but even that
- might be circumvented - I have two schemes ready that might allow us to
- use an accellerated mode, with error correction, at about four times the
- original speed...
-
- In other words, things almost looked like we might have been able to get
- the networking implemented within not too long.
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- Until four days ago.
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- Without going into detail about the unfortunate incident, I no longer seem
- to have a working Falcon to code on. Both my harddisks, the serial comms
- port, and minor parts of the motherboard are burned out because a minor
- power supply error, which, however minor, ruined my computer. Beyond
- repair, I'm afraid.
-
- Of course, this has several bad sides to it. First, I can no longer sit
- around during long nights playing games or writing long letters by
- keyboard. Next, I have lost lots of source code, which I don't know it I
- will be able to restore without a lot of frustrating hard work.
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- This includes the networking module code for Bad Mood.
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- To me, the greater loss is the one of tha machine itself. To you, it
- might be that code... I don't know.
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- Condolations are welcome.
-
- Kai
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- P.O.Box 5061, Larsgaarden # are Copyright (C) 1995, Kai Trygve Holst
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