Andry
02-10-2002, 07:31 AM
I'm designing a game that I'd like to run online somewhat.
What I plan on doing is having all the players log-on using a client version of the game, meanwhile at home my system being the host, running all the major code and file-swapping with my players/clients.
I have experience programming host/client type stuff on normal networks but not over phone lines.
What do I need in order to accomplish this?
What keywords should I use in VB Help to bring up material concerning the code I'll need to learn?
Are there any servers that offer a bit of free space, so I might be able to test online?
Or perhaps even the keywords so I can look up help on establishing a direct modem->modem connection for testing.
When I made multi-user apps for my school network instead of writing to the computer HD, I wrote to the servers, and people just accessed files back and forth.
I would use a line like this:
Open "X:\AllShared\chat.txt" for input as #1
blah blah blah, right...
Is there anyway to communicate directly to an IP?
(This may sound weird, I have no idea what I'm talking about)
But I mean just like how I plugged in the Shared drive path..
example...
Open "IP:169.45.766.42\C:\InputFromHere" for input as #1
(^^^I know there may be no such thing, just giving you an idea of what I'm thinking about.)
If anyone can help me with this that would be beyond awesome.
What I plan on doing is having all the players log-on using a client version of the game, meanwhile at home my system being the host, running all the major code and file-swapping with my players/clients.
I have experience programming host/client type stuff on normal networks but not over phone lines.
What do I need in order to accomplish this?
What keywords should I use in VB Help to bring up material concerning the code I'll need to learn?
Are there any servers that offer a bit of free space, so I might be able to test online?
Or perhaps even the keywords so I can look up help on establishing a direct modem->modem connection for testing.
When I made multi-user apps for my school network instead of writing to the computer HD, I wrote to the servers, and people just accessed files back and forth.
I would use a line like this:
Open "X:\AllShared\chat.txt" for input as #1
blah blah blah, right...
Is there anyway to communicate directly to an IP?
(This may sound weird, I have no idea what I'm talking about)
But I mean just like how I plugged in the Shared drive path..
example...
Open "IP:169.45.766.42\C:\InputFromHere" for input as #1
(^^^I know there may be no such thing, just giving you an idea of what I'm thinking about.)
If anyone can help me with this that would be beyond awesome.