As announced in several recent news articles, CALCnet2.2 is a long-running of mine that has in the past two weeks reach fruition on real hardware devices.  NetPong v1.0 is a small game that I have been developing for the last few days to showcase the capabilities of CALCnet 2.2, including broadcasting, one-to-many and one-to-one transmissions, fault and collision tolerance, and low latency capabilities.  NetPong allows you to play Pong across an arbitrary number of calculators. With two, three, four or more calculators, NetPong creates a single virtual LCD for a standard Pong game, complete with scoring, paddles, distributed pausing and quitting, and more.  Although no specialized hardware is required, playing with more than two calculators requires a simple splice of I/O cables together; feel free to ask for assistance.

CALCnet2.2 will continue to be developed, and I plan to soon re-integrate it into Doors CS 7, no mean feat considering how little free space is left in it for me to add new features.  I'll let the somewhat unwieldy screenshots of two-, three-, and four-calculator gameplay speak for themselves.

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NetPong v1.0






Videos of real calculators playing earlier versions of NetPong:

This looks pretty cool and

I am tempted to do a lil feature of this in the news with another prog. One thing I wish is if we could connect our calc to the internet and play certain games online, something that could be supported by a calc gaming server or the like. Gemini Online would rule

That would be cool. I wonder how it would work on the user's end. Would he need to buy a mini USB to USB adapter and some sort of wi-fi USB connector or even jailbreak something like the Nintendo Wii/DS one? Or would it simply involves connecting the calc to a computer, which would run a software letting you connect your calc to the internet? IN the later case, the games made for this software would have to support a single-player or linked mode too, so they are used by more people, since some people may not be interested much in having to keep their calc connected to the computer to play online games.

This is sweet!

Just a side idea I had: sell IR/RF link adapters that are fully compatible with link cables much like we are planning to do with the OmniTech calc.

How does CALCnet2 link more than two calcs together though?

EDIT: I'm guessing it doesn't use the cable that comes with the calc

EDIT2: Feature request for WabbitEmu: taking screenshots of multiple calcs side by side