Brand-new ANSI parallax demo in latest Mistigris artpack
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Kirkman14 · 2015-11-01 13:44

This demo is built using Synchronet's Javascript environment, plus the
Frame.js and Sprite.js libraries. If you want to try it online, hop
over to my BBS, guardian.synchro.net, either on the web or by telnet.

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RealDeuce · 2015-11-01 20:20

Regarding the latency problems, one of the Synchronet 2.0 features I
plan to implement is client-side JavaScript (since that's what JS is
designed for anyway).

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NuSkooler · 2015-11-01 21:25

This is awesome! After I get some other things out of the way, I'd
love to port this library to ENiGMA½ for the purposes of a door game
with scrolling. I see no reason why it would not work on fast
connections!

EDIT: I just tried this out on your board. LOVE IT! This is extremely
inspirational... I may have to bump up the priority on experimenting
with porting your JS Syncronet library to ENiGMA! Great work!

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Kirkman14 · 2015-11-02 00:39

I'll be curious to hear from more folks who try it on my BBS. These
demos have always worked well for me at home, but obviously I'm using
machines on the same network. When Whazzit and Cthulu tried early
versions of this demo, though, they experienced latency issues. Data
seemed to lag and bunch up, corrupting the text. I saw the same thing
when I finally tried it at work.

I made some changes to the timing of the whole thing, and somehow the
latency issues seem to have disappeared. When I test it at work now,
everything looks good. I hope that will prove to be the case for
others. But I honestly don't understand why it's behaving any
differently.

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RealDeuce · 2015-11-02 03:38

To avoid the data bunching up, SyncTERM supports output throttling...
though 115200bps is the highest rate it supports (I think), so it may
not be fast enough for smooth functioning.

This, of course, can increase latency a fair bit, so isn't reccomended
for interactive screens.