Subject: RE: Socket/protocol/packet/etc ramblings
From: Jari P Saukkonen (jsaukkon@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Date: Sun Sep 05 1999 - 21:21:00 EEST
> > I´m pretty sure majority of our player´s would benefit from UPD, almost > > every net game there is uses it, so it can´t be such a problem. > > We'll make it to autodetect the protocol and code the abstraction layer. Yes, UDP is absolutely necessary. Check out http://www.gamasutra.com/features/19990903/lincroft_01.htm for a good article (=must-read) relating the subject. "The conclusion is obvious: the Internet sucks." :) ++dazzt --- | Jari Saukkonen + jari.saukkonen@cs.helsinki.fi : coral -. | programming music graphics | dolphin : | art keyboards web | nah-kolor | +------------------------------------------------+-----------' | Babylon5-inspired 'shadow function' 0 <= t <= 4*pi/3 : x(t) = (sin 8t)^2 * (5 + 3sin 8t) cos (t/2 + (sin 8t)^2) . y(t) = +-(sin 8t)^2 * (5 + 3cos 8t) sin (t/2 + (sin 8t)^2)
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