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Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« on: October 26, 2010, 06:57:36 AM »
So what games can be placed over a serial link ?

The ones I know of:

Populous 2
Lotus 2
Knights of the sky
Alien Breed 3D
Gloom (?)
Fears


What else?


Is this generally hard to set up or do you just plug the cable in ?
Any software you need or no ?
 

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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2010, 07:05:12 AM »
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 07:38:59 AM »
Vroom.
Dune 2.

I would like to know if those games could be played over serial between a real amiga and an uae machine. I tried once several years ago with a null-modem cable (Lotus 2 i guess) but it did not work.
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2010, 07:41:51 AM »
Dune 2 allows it ? Thatd be AWESOME
 

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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2010, 08:19:44 AM »
Here is a list of games you can play with linked Amigas:

Alien Breed 3D
Alien Breed 3D 2
Armour Geddon
Armour Geddon 2
Ballistic Diplomacy
Battle Cars
Battle Cars 2
Battle Chess
Battle Chess 2
Battle Duel
Blitz Bombers
BOMB
Carnage
Colours
Colours Professional
Combat Air Patrol
Days of Thunder
Dog Fight
Doom
Doom II
Dungeon
Embryo
Empire
Exodus The Last War
F-16 Combat Pilot
F16 Falcon
Faces ...Tris III
Fears
Fighter Duel
Fighter Duel Pro
Fighter Duel Pro 2
Fire Brigade
Firepower
Flight of the Intruder
Flight Simulator 2
Global Effect
Gloom
Gloom 3
Gloom Deluxe
Gravity Force 2
Gravity Power
Grid Lock
Gypsy Cards
Hard Drivin 2
Honda RVF750
Hover Sprint
Jet
Knights of the Sky
Leading Lap
Lotus II
Matrix Marauders
Max Rally
Maze Warz
Medieval Warriors
Micro Machines
Moonbases
Motor Duel
Napalm
Operation Com.bat
Overdrive
Perfect General
Populous
Populous 2
Powerdrome
Powermonger
Quake
Reunion
Robosport
Schlachtfeld 2
SerStratego
Skidmarks
Super Skidmarks
Spacewar
Starworld
Stellar Conflict
Stunt Car Racer
Super Tetris
Tank Wars
TeleBackgammon
TeleCheckers
TeleChess
TeleWar
Tom Landry Strategy Football
Tornado
Tracon 2
Turbo Trax
Uropa2 Hoverwars
Vroom
Wingnuts
XTreme Racing
ZapTris
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2010, 08:24:13 AM »
awesome, very helpful!

Do you have any experience with this, how hard it is to set up etc ?
 

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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2010, 09:56:24 AM »
My top 3 (for what it's worth, which is possibly not a lot :) )

Stunt Car Racer - top game! If you haven't tried it yet - stop reading this and go and play it linked up!
Populous II - feel my firey volcano wrath, evil-doers. Oh, the fun you can have plonking a massive volcano in the other persons main towny area.
Powermonger - Roast mutton anyone? (meeh) Splatter your friends with catapults and wait for the screaming as their army is annihilated with maximum prejudice!
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2010, 10:07:05 AM »
Quote from: runequester;587133

Is this generally hard to set up or do you just plug the cable in ?


The only one I tried was Firepower, which was pretty easy. Plug in the nullmodem cable and you're ready to go. IIRC, you could also play over telephone line with serial modems (or was that a different game?).
 

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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2010, 10:53:58 AM »
F29 Retaliator?
I used to play It on my PCs, and I'm sure the Amiga version can be played over serial link (null modem cable).
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2010, 11:05:15 AM »
Yeay Cammy & Colani1200.  Firepower.  I used to play that against my housemate in 1990 for hours into the night.  20 Years ago. Poor little squashed soldiers..
 

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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2010, 01:56:37 PM »
Stunt Car Racer FTW!
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #11 on: November 08, 2010, 08:08:32 AM »
I added serial link support
to my opensource game called "2Decide"
which is on aminet.

I also made a serial link only
2 player space top down shooter
which I never uploaded unfortunately.

off topic:
I made a 2-? player local intense tag game
which I also never uploaded.

I made several other games
including Droidwars 1,2,3,4, and 5,
which are on aminet.
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #12 on: November 08, 2010, 10:13:55 PM »
Quote from: Xanxi;587140
Vroom.
Dune 2.

I would like to know if those games could be played over serial between a real amiga and an uae machine. I tried once several years ago with a null-modem cable (Lotus 2 i guess) but it did not work.


I don't know about Vroom but there is no head-to-head option for Dune 2. :(
 

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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #13 on: November 09, 2010, 08:05:06 AM »
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I don't know about Vroom but there is no head-to-head option for Dune 2. :(

Yeah, i made a mistake, i got confused by the remake Dune 2000. Bad luck.

Vroom can do it however, even between Amiga and Atari ST (just like Lotus 2).
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Re: Games that can be played with two linked amigas?
« Reply #14 on: November 09, 2010, 09:46:21 AM »
Quote from: Cammy;587150
Here is a list of games you can play with linked Amigas:

Wow... Pretty comprehensive list!
Thought of Stuntcar Racer, Battlechess, F-16 Falcon and some other
olden goodies, they were on the list, together with the "newer" Exodus.
Excellent for future reference! :)
.oO(wondering whether Carrier Command had null-modem or not)
intuition inside!