A nice network lib
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| hi there,i am searching a network lib for my new game, and result: gnet/socket :from bmax is clean but no enough examples bnetEx is opensource but a little complicate Tnet is simple and nice but no updates and can't contact the author..... Raknet is powerful but complicate,also no enough examples so you guys have a better choice??appreciate if you can share!! |
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| Just use bnetEx... really easy to use, extend, understand... within the time you have used to check all these modules/implementations you already could have coded your wrapper for bnetex (for reliable udp which is the thing most ppl want). bye MB |
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| i know it's nice but can't get it work without more examples!! |
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| I think maybe not many people have experience with network programming, most games tend not to have a networking feature cus it can really make the game more complex to code and needs to be thought about early on. I think that's why there isn't a greater plethora of articles and examples and discussions about it. Tring to figure it out is a bite. |
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| Have you tried etna? http://www.blitzbasic.com/toolbox/toolbox.php?tool=160 |
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| There does not seem to be a link to the etna download. Also, a few of the links on the site are 404. Seem it is no longer available or supported? |
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| http://repeatuntil.online.fr/Etna/ Assuming you already made it there, look for the 'here' link after the red text under the license. EDIT: I considered using ETNA until I realized it is windows only :( |
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| I tried Chrome, Firefox, and IE7, and the word HERE does not appear after the red text in any of my browsers. I checked the source and found the url to the file and grabbed it. There is some goofy javascript around the link which fails so the link doesn't show. |
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| thanks all of you! after some days' learning and testing, i choose BnetEx finally because it's really handy!! i spent 2 days on bmx native socket and get nothing but just use 2 hours in bnetEx to get a nice C/S mode running perfect! ok,if you guys ask me i now suggest you to use Bnetex |
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| ETNA: Seem it is no longer available or supported? Yes, ETNA is still available, and is still working fine! This is strange that the link was not working (the javascript thing is just a counter). You can download directly from here: http://repeatuntil.online.fr/Etna/Etna.zip ETNA is windows only. This is because it is using thread which were (at that time) only available via dll. But now ETNA could be maybe rewritten fully in Blitzmax, since blitzmax is now threaded... |
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