[Alephmodular-devel] This amuses me from physics.cpp...

[Br'fin <br...@ma...>]

After all you guys discussion about networking, I was amused to stumble 
across this note in physics.cpp. Even more amusing, didn't they 
implement something more like the first method then the second method 
in the end? :)

-Jeremy Parsons

> Sunday, May 22, 1994 11:14:55 AM
> 	there are two viable methods of running a synchronized network game.  
> thefirst is doom's, where each player shares with each other player 
> only his control information for that tick (this imposes a maximum 
> frame rate, as the state-of-the-world will be advanced at the same 
> time on all machines).  the second is the continuous lag-tolerant 
> model where each player shares absolute information with each other 
> player as often as possible and local machines do their best at 
> guessing what everyone else in the game is doing until they get better 
> information.  whichever choice is made will change the physics 
> drastically.  we're going to take the latter approach, and cache the 
> KeyMap at interrupt time to be batch-processed later at frame time.