2024 Econet LAN party: Write your own code

[Issue7]

So, you’ve connected your machine to the Econet, but the thrill of *NOTIFYing and *REMOTEing your neighbour wears off after a while doesn’t it?

Thanks to Mr Moxon we have Elite over Econet, which will be fantastic. We’re also looking to get some more games on the museum server working – currently Arcadians and the odd Master demo works well. I see this thread has got some more games working: viewtopic.php?t=28201

Anyone thought about writing their own game? Our Econet LAN party on 18th and 19th May could be just the time to try out some BBC Basic that talks across the Econet. And if you can get it working across the room, we could try it internationally too!

Personally, I’ve just developed a boring TNMoC splash screen and a loader that puts a different program on each machine depending upon what it's network address is. I’m also working on a networked noughts and crosses, which I might even get finished for the event!

If you fancy a dabble, I can heartily recommend the Econet Advanced User Guide – it contains an excellent tutorial to build a program to communicate and play ‘music’ across the network. https://archive.org/details/econet-adva ... tober-1983

To save the wear and tear on your fingers, the SEND and RECEIVE programs from the manual are attached to this post.

Econet.ssd

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Tom
TNMoC Acorn curator

[jgharston]

And to make things easier, there are networking libraries at https://mdfs.net/blib/#net

Also, adding to the list of networked gaming:
https://mdfs.net/Apps/Networking/NetGames/