my school uses a program called horizonlive. i believe the server is a *nix, but im not sure of the deals. im in the position of providing tech support to end users, and i gotta say that its a bitch. having mac and windoze users complain about their 33.6k connection... geeze... anyways the stream in real audio/video, and supports an audio only mode for users w/ a slow connection. audio only is around 6k/s, video 20k/s. this is the only system of the sort i've seen but id be interested in helping develope something that works better. horizonlive only works for users w/ netscape, not that that's a bad thing but when supporting non=technical windows users its hard to explain this to them. we've had a TON of problems with the system, i think its only beta quality software, but thats only my opinion.
Im really bummed.. Ive seen some articles on/. that have gotten to me, but this one... WOW! Ive been an avid BattleTech player for 8 years, I hope the companies who have it now will continue developement. IF NOT, lets get an online communtiy together around this and the other great FASA games to facillate online-by-player-developement to extend FASA games into the future.
m$ft is bitching about tax incentives????? in the us thats standard practice for any city/state. i wonder what kind of deals that they (m$ft) has gotten for placing any of its own facilities? the australians are just trying to compete with the rest of the world...
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my school uses a program called horizonlive. i believe the server is a *nix, but im not sure of the deals. im in the position of providing tech support to end users, and i gotta say that its a bitch. having mac and windoze users complain about their 33.6k connection... geeze... anyways the stream in real audio/video, and supports an audio only mode for users w/ a slow connection. audio only is around 6k/s, video 20k/s. this is the only system of the sort i've seen but id be interested in helping develope something that works better. horizonlive only works for users w/ netscape, not that that's a bad thing but when supporting non=technical windows users its hard to explain this to them. we've had a TON of problems with the system, i think its only beta quality software, but thats only my opinion.
Im really bummed.. Ive seen some articles on /. that have gotten to me, but this one... WOW! Ive been an avid BattleTech player for 8 years, I hope the companies who have it now will continue developement. IF NOT, lets get an online communtiy together around this and the other great FASA games to facillate online-by-player-developement to extend FASA games into the future.
m$ft is bitching about tax incentives????? in the us thats standard practice for any city/state. i wonder what kind of deals that they (m$ft) has gotten for placing any of its own facilities? the australians are just trying to compete with the rest of the world...