I am working on a dosbox multiplayer frontend for linux and have the following question. Should I aim to compile my frontend into dosbox proper or to make it standalone? Do there exist any other multiplayer frontends for dosbox?
I don't even know what a multiplayer frontend is.
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Something like this 😀
(I've abandoned it years ago...)
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Yes, exactly but better 😀 and for linux.
Java runs on linux, too 😜
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It is a hassle to install JDK, at least for me. You quit developing your program, so Java is probably not a perfect choice.
I quit because there is not much demand in DOS multiplayer games and DOSBox itself distracted me.
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Yes, sure you were 😀 Anyway, there's plenty of interest for multiplayer, especially, it seems, for blood3d.
There was YANG, but it recently closed its source. Jerks
Programming only for Linux is not a good idea since the group of people is already pretty small even for a cross platform setup to find suitable players for their games.
Since Hall's frontend was written in Java and looks pretty advanced already, it could probably be integrated into DBGL relatively easily ?!
It's easy to make advanced looking GUIs in java 😉
The LAN and custom modes worked, the IRC mode could log on to a server and join a channel, but not connect a game IIRC. It was the step to define messages the clients would use on IRC to connect where I left off.
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Har har, I call this the secret trap of the GUI. Sure you can deposit a lot of controls on a form all at once. But then you get overwhelmed and stop development... That's the problem with GUI's altogether not just Java GUI development.
You have to take it one step at a time to finish.
No, I didn't get overwhelmed, 90% of these buttons work 😜
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Well, they gray out the 10% buttons and let's start gaming!
