Ya know, I was thinking about this a couple of years ago. Maybe even
before doom came out. I was thinking that if you used one machine
to do the kernal, a second machine could do game logic, etc. They would
both have 1 controller port for a total of 2, and the only data you'd need
to send back and forth would be one set of joystick data, certain registers
(collision detection for example), and you'd need to send tia info to the
kernal machine. Knowing what I know now, which still isn't much, I think
this particular setup would be difficult at best.
But I still like the idea, and I think that with some thought, some of the
people on this list could get some type of network to work.
-Chris
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>
> OK, here's a dumb question from somebody who admittedly just glances over
> most posts to this list...
>
> I've seen bits here and there about the potential (I think) for LEDs on
> the controllers. This means the ports are bidirectional? Would it be
> possible to "link" two 2600 consoles together using a 9-pin cord
> connecting, say, the second joystick port on both systems?
>
> Or to make network ID assignment even simpler, what if one console used
> port #1, and the other used port #2? Then you'd automatically know which
> console was which.
>
> Just curious if we could ever have a networked 2600 game... :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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