Bruce Tomlin and I discussed this idea at length. The major problem
would be the length and impedance of the cable and the timings
necessary.
I did finally come up with a plan for a 2-player networked game, but
have not had the time to try it.
Matt Pritchard
graphics_grunt@ensemble_studios
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From: Songbird [SMTP:forhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 11, 1997 11:16 AM
To: Stella List
Subject: [stella] Linking 2600 consoles?
Importance: High
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,
Carl Forhan <><
Vindicator Online:
http://www.millcomm.com/~forhan/vindicator.html
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