Talk:Bolo (1987 video game)

message: This page is basically about the Mac Bolo and the games that developed from it. Yet the infobar merges that version along with the earlier, and generally forgotten, BBB version. The platform list is similarly confusing. I suggest we remove this. Maury 19:03, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are multiple notable computer games named "Bolo", and so this page needs to be a disambig page pointing to the different versions.  Tempshill (talk) 07:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove "early" Bolo? 

message: John Morrison recently release winbolo under the GPLv2.  See http://winbolo.org for more details.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.74.218 (talk) 16:17, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free Open Source Release 

message: I don't know this game, so can't be sure, but the article reads like: "this was a BBC game first. End of BBC section. Entire rest of article about Mac (and to an extent Windows) version". I don't have any problem with the Mac game being dominant, since it was much more significant historically... but it would be nice to have a *little* bit specifically about the original BBC incarnation, if anyone can provide that. 86.132.142.153 (talk) 09:24, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC? 

message: "In December 2009, 9 years after the projects initial release and 10 years from inception, Morrison released the source code to...."  This cannot possibly be correct as written; it's April 2009 now.  However, I tried to follow the link and it takes me to the front page of the WinBolo Wiki, so I'm not sure where this particular bit of information is being sourced from, so I don't know how to correct it.
--James-Chin (talk) 05:45, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  December 2009? 

message: Just a warning to any newbies, this article is fantastically confused regarding almost every point of the game's development and release history. Just from my firsthand recollection:
* Bolo wasn't written on the BBC Micro, that was basically just a testbed, I'm not even sure if significant (or any) BBC Micro source code was actually "ported" to the Mac. In particular, the BBC Micro version was never publicly released, and I'm pretty sure no copy of it is known to survive today. Using this prerelease software for the date in the infobox is somewhat misleading.
* The Windows/Linux/OS X/etc versions aren't ports, but clones. They share little or no source code or compatibility (even with each other, in many cases,) and zero involvement from Cheshire. Listing these in the infobox is HIGHLY misleading.
* Bolo was one of the most popular netgames in the world during the late '80s to the middle '90s. By the time these (disorganized and abortive) clones started appearing in the early '00s, Bolo's community was already pretty dormant, so they landed with a dull thud, and the OS X transition starting around the same time killed anything left.
* It's true that Bolo wasn't designed for anything other than LAN play, but that didn't stop it from becoming wildly popular online through various pieces of tunneling software. Sure, lag was bad over the 9.6kbps modems of the day, especially with more than a couple players, but it was still fun to play. Also, by the time the internet (yeah, those last two sentences were talking about BBSs and payed private services) became popular outside institutions, native TCP/IP had been added to Bolo and 36.6kbps or better modems to most Macs, so online play (if you can wrangle some players) is now basically lag-free.
I'll probably come back and fix the article up after I find some sources online (in particular, a dated version history would resolve most of its problems,) but unless somebody else deals with this, don't trust anything the article says other than the gameplay description. 72.130.58.85 (talk) 05:48, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive historical inaccuracy 

message: Entire sections of this article are seemingly written in first-person narrative. WikiPedia is not a review site. Planning on rewriting most of it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Courtneymorris95 (talk • contribs) 03:06, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly written sections