Re: Developing PBEM in VB

From: "MindShift Design" <mindshift@usa.net>

Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Jake B wrote in message <70onh5$4sd@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>Anybody started a PBeM game in VB? strategy in particular and version 5 of
>VB in particular.  I started one once... kind of stopped working on it
after
>awhile... I would enjoy somebody's comments in making a PBEM in VB.  Oh and
>BTW this is for everybody... you know that new Agent SDK out there by MS?
W/
>the text 2 Voice thing and Voice Recog.?  It'd sure be interesting to see
>those incorporated into a PBEM game, no?  Voice activated commands and
>talking responses? :)

We use Delphi to implement our game administration software due to it's
speed, solid language strucutre and inherent database handling abilities, so
can't help on the VB front.

It make be interesting to incorporate them, but thing how much bigger your
application will become. Not only will you have to distribute the DLLs, but
also the extra code in your programs to handle the SDK as well as the
database of commands. Microsoft bloatware goes by that term for a good
reason <s>.

Besides which if you set up a front-end that read out results, you'd be
limiting your player base for that front to Windows platforms only.

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Developing PBEM in VB
"Jake B" <jakeB@iName.com>
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000