Anyone else here have fond memories over playing bolo?

'Twas a great game, but I can't get it to work on my G4 (which is odd, because it has both OS X and OS 9.1). At school, lots of kids in my class would play Appletalk games on iMacs. Eventually, I downloaded it at home and started playing online.

My various stupid handles included Gorilla Guerilla, Unk in deep sea, and Grumpy. I think there's some sort of trend in there.

Yeah, I played a bit around 2001 and 2002. My favorite map was probably Washington DC because of all the walls that were there at the beginning allowed for you to easily build defensively. I liked it a lot more than all the symetrical maps that people always played.

Everard Island (the stock map) was also fun because of how varied the map was. Every base on the map required a different strategy to defend... it was great for huge open game free-for-alls.

Would be cool to set up a few Ambrosia board member games... I seem to recall there being an OS X port around somewhere, anyone have a link to it?

http://www.xbolo.net/
Not really all too complete, if I remember.

I thought your name looked familiar when I joined. I think I might have played a few games against you...maybe.



I think there was another OS X bolo, too. Ah-- here it is. http://www.nubolo.net/.

I used to play against my brother (never could win) and watch him play with a friend of his ... curiously the latter was more fun . More recently we did try playing a bit on XBolo, but no it isn't quite complete, and plays a little differently; I will have to try this NuBolo, cheers for that link.

I loved Bolo but I could only get the demo on those old mac arcade cds. Good times, good times. Incidentally, they also made me aware about escape velocity, thus leading me to the old escape velocity board a long time ago.

I learned about both bolo and EV at school. Bolo was much more popular. I started playing EV as a protest because nearly everyone abandoned bolo for Yipe III, which I hated. I've not stopped yet.

So, in a way, 664 of the posts on the Ambrosia Boards are due to Yipe III. Tripps should send a thank you card.

Classy. I'll have to look at that and maybe we'll all have to have a few games, eh?

Anyone know if port forwarding works properly with Bolo's odd networking? I seem to recall that it doesn't, but I might be wrong.

Yipe lll is?

Only problem with the nubolo is that it isn't guaranteed to work on my primary machine, which is running 10.2.8.

Well, if anyone is interested, I'm around on #bolo on the Ambrosia IRC channel. (By the way, I remember an "official" bolo channel elsewhere, anyone know if that's still around?)

I recognized the name, and when I looked at the screenshots, kind of recognized it. Looks pretty sweet. I think I will download nuBolo later and play.

I have no clue why this topic was closed. Opening it again.

And, It would be fun to have a little halo newbie match sometime. I played a long long time ago, single player only. I had ton of fun with the map editor, I think that was my favorite part.

I'm gonna assume you meant bolo, not halo... and yes, I'd enjoy some newbie bolo matches too. Haven't played for a looong time.

Ha ha, um, fruedian slip?

Oh yeah, the name Gorilla Guerilla does ring a bell.

Anyway, it would be cool to have a few games tonight... I was thinking maybe around 7 PM EDT?

4 PM PDT/1 PM EDT would work. Whats more, nubolo will read all of my old map files. I have a big collection that I've been keeping around just in case.

7 PM EDT is good for me.

Siege!?!?

I'd be interested to hear how you guys get on with nubolo games over the 'net. My brother and I tried several times to get one going - once we managed about 10 minutes before it went out of sync and after that we couldn't even get it to start. In the 10-minute instance I was pleased because he had already left me for dead, but in general not being able to start is a bad thing ... any hints/tips? ... oh and good luck.

Rickton and I played a match-- it was about 30 minutes long-- ending at 4:20 PM PDT/7:20 PM EDT. Everything worked pretty well, but there was a little bit of lag.

Mispeled, where were you? I had to beat on Rickton all by myself!

I had a commitment that I found out about at about 6:50 Very sorry, I'll try to be around tomorrow at that time.

By the way, I think it would be a lot better if we could all meet on IRC, would make setting up games easier. Do you guys hang out on #ev3 much?

Nice. Did you just use all the default settings - tracker and such? We tried setting up and then going manual join, tried with and without the tracker without success. Gonna have another go this evening, NZ time .

Sounds good. However, I have no idea how IRC works. Could someone explain it to me?



I started it. I have no idea how Rickton joined.

Can classic Bolo connect to nubolo? I would like to take a crack at a game as well. I'll check in on IRC this afternoon to see if I can join up.

I would have tried it last night, but I was busy with my brother's wedding and reception all day yesterday.

To my knowledge, the two can't connect, but nubolo can handle classic maps.

Unfortunately, I have a commitment at 7 PM EDT.

How does one use IRC?

Download a client such as XChat or Colloquy. Set the server to irc.ambrosiasw.com, then type /join #ev3 (or whatever channel you wish to join). IRChelp.org is a good resource to use if you still need help with something.

By the way, I'm not sure if people will be able to join me. I've got port forwarding set up for UDP port 50000, but I'm not sure if that'll work properly with Bolo's ring networking.

Tracker.

If you're having problems with the tracker...
Next to the fields, it says what the defaults are (why the fields are set to things besides the defaults, who knows). You need to set the values in the fields to the defaults for it to work.

XChat quits the moment I try to start it and Colluquy won't work on my computer. All I've learned is that computer experts, i.e. those on IRChelp.org, are notoriously bad at explaining anything more complex than, oh, making toast.

Try running Xchat from the terminal-it may explain your problem better than a simple open-and-close.

Well, I'm going to assume that I'm unable to host. I'll be watching the tracker, so start a game if you want to play!

Sorry for the absolute ineptitude, but how does one run an application through the terminal?

Download X-Chat Aqua instead. You don't have to run it from the Terminal.

I have X-Chat Aqua. It refuses to work.

EDIT: Post 777!

How about a little gaming now?

I'm in. nuBolo has its problems but it's running fine *sigh* on 10.2.8.

if we could get a 3v3 or something that would tight

I'll be on after 22:00 hours PST with a "server" just to see whos goin' on. there are some slick maps that need some playing. west side of wash DC rocks, you have 3 bases nudged together with 2 just SE for good measure. i'll keep crankcase (*yawn*) going to see what can be started.

old bolo rules, but nuBolo has its advantages, and bugs...*.*

Bolo online play kicked my arse without exception, and with player hostility. It created the feeling of being thoroughly pwned years before battle.net was a glimmer in anyone's eye.

So who's stopping by to play?

nuBolo has its bugs, I like teh original Bolo for what it is, but this'll work better.

Download it, spend some time goofing off with it (probably better to have the original version to start with, get it at lgm.com) then come join in.

Bolo gave me my name!
Tanks are slow... and have a tough outer shell...
Snaily was born!

wow there's a lot of people willing to play this game again!

/worthless quibble

apparently andrew played bolo too

now nobody does >.<

Yes, Andrew played bolo under the name 'berserkir', iirc.

My first post on this forum was about bolo. How young I was back then...

A little piece of history:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=25

Also, just for kicks, topic number 10:
http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=10

It's nice to be back.

Bolo, yeah. Great game. I used to play it against my brother years ago.

I played this game a lot when I was around 12 years old. I'd love to play again sometime.

ugh that's . . . not . . . quite . . . gravedigging . . . grrrrr!


Oh god, I remember bolo, and that one ambrosia game with the balls and the laser shooter thing that you used to trap them, and civ 2, and exile . . .

The games of my small childhood, how I miss you.

Edit: Barrack being the ball and laser one.

btw, what tracker do you use? no one is on bolo.usu.edu...

I'd forgotten about this topic entirely.

But yeah...it would be fun to play bolo again.

im "magnum22" on bolo.usu.edu