ARTILLERY DUEL

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Overview:

This is an "online" version of Artillery Duel written to demonstrate the potential of multiplayer games over the Internet with the Commodore 64.  It's believed to be the very first Internet-enabled game for the good old C64!  

Click here for the Powerpoint presentation about the project given at World of Commodore 2006.

Features:

• Two players over the Internet or LAN (turn-based)
• Chat (F7)
• Mediocre graphics
• Sound effects
• Joystick control (Port 2)

Technical Details:

• UDP-based communication (don't forget to forward port 3000 in your router/firewall to your C64)
• Written in DASM assembler
• Uses netlib64, which in turn supports the RR-Net, FB-Net, or ETH64 cartridges.

Download:

Artillery Duel from Commodore Scene Database

The network configuration file follows the proposed standard set out by Per Olofsson.  Run the CONFIGURE program to choose your network settings.

Pleas note that VICE isn't yet supported, as its RR-Net emulation is a bit buggy.

Future Plans:

Once Artillery Duel is finished, we plan to re-use many of the game ideas and protocol into a rewrite of Weather War, another C64/PET classic.  From there, a more sophisticated platformer/scroller shoot-em-up might be fun.  Eventually, we could even implement a server-based MMORPG, possibly modeled loosely on the Ultima series of games.

Links:

• Discuss the game's development on the C64 Network Game Development forum.
   
• Look for opponents on the C64friends IRC chat.
   
• Summary of Ethernet on the Commodore 64.

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