I like the way you've done it, so that each user has their own set of save files. We do something similar with the Ozmoo adventures. However, I'm not so sure the files should be stored in the Library folder. My preference would be to have the files stored somewhere in a shared 'Games' area (eg $.GAMES.ELITE) of the FileServer that all users can get access to, and then have a small loader in each Users home directory that runs the executable from the correct directory. That way we could still have an 'Elite' user that auto runs the game. Again, this is similar to how we've set it up for Ozmoo.So I'm trying to create a system where you log in with your personal account and have access to your unique set of Elite save files in your own user directory, rather than having one account shared between all people wanting to play the game. I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, as I don't really know if this is an Econet-type approach or just something I inherited from Unix - but that's why I went down the *DIR then *DIR ELITE route, as the game needs the directory set to the save directory to work. Is this a valid approach?
The game binaries need to live in just one place - at the moment this is the library, which feels like the right place for shared binaries, especially as I want people to be able to do *ELITE to play Elite. Again, not sure if I got this right?
Statistics: Posted by KenLowe — Sun Jan 14, 2024 10:36 pm
