Oct 10, 2011 20:52
Linbolo also for non-programmers?
Hi!
My son (12) and I got talking about old games. I told him of Bolo and how it kept us PhD students from our research,and/ or kept us in the labs for late-night duels. Must have been in 1993 or something. We checked it out on the net. For his generation, submerged in MineCraft, the simplicity of the design was even a plus! He loved the idea.
At home we have one good Windows computer and two reasonably fresh, "recycled" computers with Ubuntu (and a crappy netbook, but that doesnt count ;-). In order to play against each other we would need to run bolo on the linux's.
The info I have found are a bunch of dead links and posts from like <2003. One exception being from this summer where someone was complaining about errors in compilation from the source code. I'm afraid handling source-code is slightly beyond me, especially if there is trouble to be expected. :-)
Are there any fresh links to version 1.13 of Linbolo? If yes, are there any servers that will host this today? I understand this was the last working version...
Any plans to get a newer Linbolo available?
Many thanks
Erik
My son (12) and I got talking about old games. I told him of Bolo and how it kept us PhD students from our research,and/ or kept us in the labs for late-night duels. Must have been in 1993 or something. We checked it out on the net. For his generation, submerged in MineCraft, the simplicity of the design was even a plus! He loved the idea.
At home we have one good Windows computer and two reasonably fresh, "recycled" computers with Ubuntu (and a crappy netbook, but that doesnt count ;-). In order to play against each other we would need to run bolo on the linux's.
The info I have found are a bunch of dead links and posts from like <2003. One exception being from this summer where someone was complaining about errors in compilation from the source code. I'm afraid handling source-code is slightly beyond me, especially if there is trouble to be expected. :-)
Are there any fresh links to version 1.13 of Linbolo? If yes, are there any servers that will host this today? I understand this was the last working version...
Any plans to get a newer Linbolo available?
Many thanks
Erik