Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / November 2005

I am writing a simple game.  I would like to let two (or perhaps more)
computers hook up into a network to play the game human against human
instead of merely human against computer.  I did this once with a game I
wrote a while back, but that was OS 9 and I used Open Transport, which I'm
not sure is the current approach to networking on OS X.  My program is
presently Carbon, not Cocoa.  I am slightly familiar with Unix sockets and
I have some code I used once for socket programming, but I'm not sure how
to use Unix style commands in a Carbon app, and I'm not sure if Unix
sockets are the reccomended approach for Carbon networking anyway.

I am perusing the Networking section of developer.apple.com, but most of
the network sample code seems to assume you want to do web programming.  I
don't want simple one-go client retrieval.  I want to set up a persistent
two-way pipe for a game.

Any ideas?

Thank you for any suggestions.

Cheers!

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Keith Wiley         kwiley@cs.unm.edu         http://www.unm.edu/~keithw

"Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson,
that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to
aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy."
                                           --  Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland
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