🚀 go-pugleaf

chetl@donald.tamu.edu (Chet Laughlin) writes:

>In article <9APR92.16231988@enh.nist.gov> tjb@enh.nist.gov writes:
>>Hi,
>>I noticed that some flight simulators allow playing against someone
>>else using a modem. I was wondering if it is possible to make
>>such a game that would link to the internet and allow many
>>players to play at the same time.

>There is such a beast that is part of the games package on your 
>standard Silicon Graphics machines.  There are several types of
>planes one can fly if I remember right.  There is some basic
>scenery and an airport also.  I think one can play up to 5 or 6
>people simultaneously.  I do know the network traffic can be quite
>demanding - there are rumors that a group of grads disconnect some
>of the SGI's around here from the main backbone late on weekend nights
>to duel it out amoung themselves.  One of the system's programmers 
>here seems to be pretty good at it.  I myself can't keep the plane
>up, much less release SAMs while performing some exotic manouver.

SAMs are ground-launched, so it's not surprising that you can't
fire one ;-)

An answer to the original question: ACM is a multiplayer flight-
simulator for X-windows/UNIX machines, available through anonymous FTP.

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Jan Mattsson                    janm@student.docs.uu.se
Computer Science student, Uppsala University, Sweden