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Network emulation?
#269008 - 11/19/11 12:09 AM
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I have not looked into this for a long time but I know there are various netplay builds of MAME now and I wondered if there were any up to date (or not) builds that supported local networking as the original games did?
I'm talking about driving games really since they are the most obvious (and I'm looking into making mine a twin) but I gues it'd apply to any network games.
I know nebula is networkabe but I wondered (hoped) MAME in some form was too?
I'm guessing it's possible to just have the emulator run on one machine and have multiple displays to achieve the same effect but it's not really possible for, say, ridge racer, san francisco rush or really any 3d game (while is most of the networkable games I guess).
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Re: Network emulation?
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#269010 - 11/19/11 12:24 AM
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> I have not looked into this for a long time but I know there are various netplay
> builds of MAME now and I wondered if there were any up to date (or not) builds that
> supported local networking as the original games did?
Original-machine networking isn't yet possible (core support for emulated drivers accessing the network is coming courtesy of MESS, but it'll also require a pretty decent rework for each driver). Your best option is to use MAMEHub right now.
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Re: Network emulation?
[Re: R. Belmont]
#269013 - 11/19/11 12:40 AM
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Well if it's coming that's a positive, even if it takes a while. I'm pretty sure nebula will hold me over until then.
Out of interest how come MESS has it? Saturn? PSX?
Next on the agenda: keeping my fingers crossed dragon king gets round to hooking up outputs for the racing games.
A bit OT but didn't he submit a near complete Outrun output hookup a while back? It didn't seem to make it into the official build at least.
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Re: Network emulation?
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#269015 - 11/19/11 12:55 AM
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> Out of interest how come MESS has it? Saturn? PSX?
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you seem to forget that MESS emulates also computers and not only consoles 
In particular, MESS has recently added working support for ethernet cards in most MacIntosh II drivers (and some basic support for ISA ethernet cards in PC-AT drivers), so that you can use your own Internet connection and Netscape on the emulated Mac to browse the web
http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=74201#Post74201
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Re: Network emulation?
[Re: etabeta]
#269018 - 11/19/11 01:04 AM
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> > Out of interest how come MESS has it? Saturn? PSX?
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> you seem to forget that MESS emulates also computers and not only consoles
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> In particular, MESS has recently added working support for ethernet cards in most
> MacIntosh II drivers (and some basic support for ISA ethernet cards in PC-AT
> drivers), so that you can use your own Internet connection and Netscape on the
> emulated Mac to browse the web
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> http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=74201#Post74201
And, if there were a Trapper Keeper Futura 2000 and you wanted to communicate/merge/hybrid a Wellington Bear Calculator to it, MESS would be the place for that 
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Re: Network emulation?
[Re: etabeta]
#269054 - 11/19/11 12:12 PM
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> > Out of interest how come MESS has it? Saturn? PSX?
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> you seem to forget that MESS emulates also computers and not only consoles
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> In particular, MESS has recently added working support for ethernet cards in most
> MacIntosh II drivers (and some basic support for ISA ethernet cards in PC-AT
> drivers), so that you can use your own Internet connection and Netscape on the
> emulated Mac to browse the web
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I actually had no idea MESS even added computers.
> http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=74201#Post74201
That's actually really, really cool.
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Re: Network emulation?
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#269082 - 11/19/11 09:28 PM
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> I actually had no idea MESS even added computers.
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don't get me wrong, but you seem to have been somewhere else for 10 years
MESS had "working" support for C64, ZX81 and Apple ][, among the others, already back in 2001
http://web.archive.org/web/20010711102300/http://mess.emuverse.com/
Anyway, many computer drivers have been broken for years (e.g. the c64) and this contributed to the very bad reputation that has characterized MESS in the early 2000s (and that we are still fighting to get free from)
Starting from 2006-2008, however, MESS has become better and better in basically all supported systems (including c64, which is currently working in his full magnificence  ) and I suggest you to give it a try, given that most options are shared with MAME (except for the basic syntax which is
mess *system* -cart /path/to/the/software/item [1]
instead of mame *game* ), including HLSL filters or GLSL ones, depending on your OS.
[1] replace -cart with -cass or -flop, where suitable, or with -listmedia to know the options supported for each system
> > http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=74201#Post74201
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> That's actually really, really cool.
yup! Arbee is doing an amazing job with all the 68k macs!
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Re: Network emulation?
[Re: etabeta]
#269083 - 11/19/11 09:40 PM
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> yup! Arbee is doing an amazing job with all the 68k macs!
Not only that, but it's basically never been done before.
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