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Introducing the MineTest Laptop Mod
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Wired Networking (mesecons / digilines support) #75

Open farooqkz opened 6 years ago

farooqkz commented 6 years ago

Routers, Modems, Cables, etc should be added and apps like mail will work just in a network(e.g. you can send mail to other players in the same network). Of course there could be a global network(internet?) so all can access each other. Cables can be added from other mods(mesecon?)

bell07 commented 6 years ago

That is the question about how realistic the mod should be. Fact is if we start to emulate all hardware, an global internet will be nearly impossible in a world. App like mail is useless in this case.

I like more the current "Cloud" behavior. If a laptop does have the "net" capability, it is connected to the internet and can access all available services. If not, the mail and other apps just not work.

PS: I was participated the "LAN-Parties", with all the cables, routers, and computers, but it was the last century oO

apachano commented 6 years ago

I like the idea of connection to cables from other mods, if you could connect to digilines cables and interface with them (Similar to the built in devices) doing things like posting text on a display that would be really cool.

apachano commented 6 years ago

Another note, with realistic networking you could support local network printers.

bell07 commented 6 years ago

The issue is not the connection but the use-case, the "doing things". Send text to a display without any logic is boring fast. This idea needs an "interpreter" like luacontroller as laptop app. Agree local network printer is a valid use case. The mail app can continue the "wireless cloud".

apachano commented 6 years ago

I would think an interface type device could be created then the already existing lua terminal could send commands. I have not gotten super in depth with playing with the mod or looking at the code yet but I feel like if you interfaced with digilines then writing programs that you can execute from the computer would be really cool. I know I am killing originality here but similar to computercraft for minecraft if you could edit and run lua files that would be awesome.

farooqkz commented 6 years ago

That is the question about how realistic the mod should be. Fact is if we start to emulate all hardware, an global internet will be nearly impossible in a world. App like mail is useless in this case. I like more the current "Cloud" behavior. If a laptop does have the "net" capability, it is connected to the internet and can access all available services. If not, the mail and other apps just not work. PS: I was participated the "LAN-Parties", with all the cables, routers, and computers, but it was the last century oO

I never meant just "Wired networking" and I don't know why have you changed the title. There could be big antenna's which could cover big areas and repeaters and other wireless stuff. so this fixes the first problem which you've specified. PS: I still use cables for many uses and I'm pretty sure cables have many advantages over wireless.