[April Fool's] DSB in the Cloud
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2020 7:36 am
Cloud gaming is the big trend of the future, and much like every other fan of a 30+ year old computer game, I am all about chasing the latest and greatest trends. So along the lines of Google Stadia and similar services, I've decided to make future versions of DSB streamed! No longer will you have to have a computer capable of running Lua, or have to download hundreds of kilobytes of data in order to play, instead, you can have it streamed straight to your desktop, TV, or phone... play just about anywhere!
Well, as long as your particular anywhere has ethernet, because this seriously does not work over most wifi at all. There will of course be a few hiccups, but this is normal with new technology, and I think they're quite easily worked around. I can't really afford the infrastructure that the big companies have. The best stream I can probably manage at the moment is 640x480 at around 6 fps. The good news is, for playing Dungeon Master, that's perfectly fine since that's how it ran on the Amiga anyway. Also I've had some issues with input latency so I've put in a lot of prediction algorithms into the input code, but we've all played the DM dungeon so many times that everyone's probably going to do basically the same thing anyway, so you shouldn't notice.
I'm now accepting orders for the DSB premiere edition, which lets you get in on the ground floor of this great new method of gaming without specialized hardware for only $130 for the specialized hardware you need in order to play!
Well, as long as your particular anywhere has ethernet, because this seriously does not work over most wifi at all. There will of course be a few hiccups, but this is normal with new technology, and I think they're quite easily worked around. I can't really afford the infrastructure that the big companies have. The best stream I can probably manage at the moment is 640x480 at around 6 fps. The good news is, for playing Dungeon Master, that's perfectly fine since that's how it ran on the Amiga anyway. Also I've had some issues with input latency so I've put in a lot of prediction algorithms into the input code, but we've all played the DM dungeon so many times that everyone's probably going to do basically the same thing anyway, so you shouldn't notice.
I'm now accepting orders for the DSB premiere edition, which lets you get in on the ground floor of this great new method of gaming without specialized hardware for only $130 for the specialized hardware you need in order to play!
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