Where can I find hacks for Bolo? These and many other interesting issues are all addressed in detail within this FAQ. Once you've read the FAQ, feel free to post any other questions or comments relevant to Bolo. You may also post small binaries which are relevant to Bolo, likely to be of interest to a wide variety of people, and best distributed via Usenet.

Getting started It is relatively easy to start playing Bolo. Simply download the game, launch it, and go through the built-in tutorial which will introduce you to the basics of the game. If you have any further questions, check out these sources of help: the short Bolo FAQ http://www.lgm.com/bolo/guides/bolofaq.html covering the 8 most frequently asked questions, What kind of stuff do I need to play Bolo? The original Bolo can only be played on a Mac.

quot;Bolo is a 16 player graphical networked real-time multi-player tank battle game. It has elements of arcade-style shoot-em-up action, but for the serious players who play 12 hour games with 16 players working in teams in different networked computer clusters around an office or university campus, it becomes more of a strategy game." --Stuart Cheshire For an excellent introduction to the game, be sure to check out the Official Bolo Home Page at its new, faster location, http://www.lgm.

You can get Bolo by using anonymous FTP (such as Fetch), gopher (TurboGopher), archie (Anarchie), or WWW (Netscape) from: The Official Bolo Web Archive http://www.lgm.com/bolo/archive/ Everything you need to get started with Bolo. This is the preferred source. Official Bolo FTP Archive ftp://ftp.lgm.com/bolo/ This site contains everything under the Bolo sun. InfoMac Archive http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.

Bolo was meant to be played by multiple people over a network. Unlike other games where you predictably conquer the game sooner or later, or repeatedly beat up on your best friend or little brother, Bolo can be played against total strangers on the Net. You must have a Macintosh computer with MacTCP or OpenTransport installed, and have access to one of the following connections: modem, direct ethernet, or AppleTalk.

sharable link ] We believe so, yes, but are not committing to a minimum baud rate this early in development. The main issue with broadband and MMOGs is still a matter of cost server side, even though bandwidth prices have gone down. In other words, it still doesn't make sense to send out a lot of data to each player's client, even if they do have the capability to receive it.

The current version of Bolo is 0.99.7. Because the various versions are not compatible with each other, if you are using an older version, you should download the new version immediately from our web archive or FTP archive.

For years, the answer was no, but this has changed dramatically with the development of multiple Bolo Clones, culminating in the recent release of WinBolo/LinBolo for the Windows/Intel and Linux/Intel platforms.

If Bolo seems jumpy or laggy even when you're playing in single- player mode, or if you seem to have more network problems than somebody else with a similar network setup, then make sure you have properly optimized your game: If you're short on memory or CPU horsepower or don't have any L2 cache (such as some base PowerBook 5300 and 1400 models), lose sounds entirely by removing BoloSounds from the Bolo folder.

Peter Lewis, Mac network guru and author of Bolo Finder, contributed to this pseudo-technical explanation. If you just want to know how to play, skip ahead to the sections on Boloing over Appletalk or the Internet.] Unlike most other network games, Bolo is not a client-server system. Bolo forms a network of Macs by linking them in a ring where one player sends packets of game information to a neighbor, who in turn sends packets to the next neighbor on the ring, and so on.

Yes, your cable TV line can carry the TV signal while you send and receive information on the Internet. Depending on how many TVs you have connected to the cable coming into your home, you may also be in need of a Signal Splitter to allow more cable connections to areas within your home. Click here to learn more about our Signal Splitter and Signal Booster products. Currently, most Internet service providers do not provide cable Internet access.

Unfortunately not directly, bandwidth restrictions mean that we won't see the return of head-to-head modem Duke-matches in DNF. However, two players will be able to attempt to play head-to-head via Windows' Dial-Up Networking server and if they have Internet access, they will be able to search for DNF Duke-match servers to play head-to-head on. Keep in mind that if you use dial-up it'll probably slower and laggy, as with all other games these days.

Yes, the game was designed from the beginning to be playable over a 56k modem, at 200ms latency. On average, our testing found that most users consume about 14kbits of bandwidth apiece, but this can vary widely by use-case. For instance, the more recent "space battle" additions to the game, involving large numbers of ships fighting in a confined area, can saturate a modem connection. This is part of the tradeoff of the continuing evolution of an online game.

Disclaimer: The following statements are based on the most reliable sources of information available, but they do not necessarily represent the official positions of Stuart Cheshire or any other party. Stuart Cheshire, He Who Made Bolo, had been busy the last few years finishing his Ph.D. (he just graduated summer of 1997) and many other Mac software projects, so he has not been able to support Bolo actively in its current shareware status.

Make sure you have installed your fax software correctly. If you plan to leave your fax-modem connected to your telephone line for any length of time, then please ensure you have a spike arrestor/power filter fitted to the phone line to minimise damage to your modem. Then, make sure that the fax software is "enabled" to listen for incoming faxes. (Disable the "listening" feature of your fax software when you want to use the internet).

No. We thought about putting it in the game this version, but there simply wasn't enough demand for it. If you really want the feature, let us know... a new version with direct modem-to-modem support is a possibility!

You will need to add the modem's PnP ID to the PnP ID list in the serial driver. To enable Plug & Play support, compile a new kernel with controller pnp0 in the configuration file, then reboot the system. The kernel will print the PnP IDs of all the devices it finds. Copy the PnP ID from the modem to the table in /sys/i386/isa/sio.c, at about line 2777. Look for the string SUP1310 in the structure siopnp_ids[] to find the table.

This can happen if the region code of the DVD does not match the region code of your DVD drive. Set your drive to the correct region. This usually means that there is a filter missing that is needed to decode one of the streams in the file. The error message should show some information about the required format, but this information is very cryptic. Below you can find some of the values that the error might show you, together with the format that belongs to it. The format above if FPS1 video.

Certainly.Obviously, the download rate is much lower than the rate of a broadband connection, but you will experience faster speeds than you expect.