Arena 3.5.1 - Autoplayer

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Arena 3.5.1 - Autoplayer

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I have a question. Please write how to properly play a match between two computers in the Arena 3.5.1.
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clic the menu engines then sub menu tournament
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Please provide a more accurate example of how the match play on two separate computers.
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How to make autoplayer work anno 2016

1. Null Modem Cable

2. Two "RS232 to USB Converts"

Autoplayer is obsolete but still working.

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Nordlandia wrote:Autoplayer is obsolete but still working.
The problem is that you need a lot of extra hardware (that has no other useful functions) to connect computers that already have the possibility to connect to each other through their built-in WiFi adapters. Normally these WiFi adapters would already be in use to set up a network, and the computers could communicate through that. (Or through an ethernet cable, if they are connected to the network gateway through that.) Even the WiFi would normally be unused you can set up aWiFi subnet between the computers by configuring one of them as router/DNS.
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Nordlandia wrote:How to make autoplayer work anno 2016

1. Null Modem Cable

2. Two "RS232 to USB Converts"

Autoplayer is obsolete but still working.

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So I understand that I need two cables type RS232 to USB Converts. And nothing more. I ask because I have to buy two cables.
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One cable, and two converts:

Computer A <---> Convert <---> cable <---> Convert <---> Computer B

And the cable needs to be a 'null-modem cable'. (RS232 cables come in two flavors: normal ones and null modems,where the latter cross the receive and send threads, so that send of one end connects to receive of the other.)
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hgm wrote:One cable, and two converts:

Computer A <---> Convert <---> cable <---> Convert <---> Computer B

And the cable needs to be a 'null-modem cable'. (RS232 cables come in two flavors: normal ones and null modems,where the latter cross the receive and send threads, so that send of one end connects to receive of the other.)

Can you give a picture of one cable and converte. Nor do I know whether this cable is suitable - available on the website http://allegro.pl/ShowItem2.php?item=55 ... cket_id=16
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The picture is already there. The converts are the silvery cables with bluish connectors on both ends. The null-modem cable is the gray one.

I cannot read Polish, but the picture in the link you gave does like an RS232-USB Convert (and actually the same one as used in the picture above).
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hgm wrote:The picture is already there. The converts are the silvery cables with bluish connectors on both ends. The null-modem cable is the gray one.

I cannot read Polish, but the picture in the link you gave does like an RS232-USB Convert (and actually the same one as used in the picture above).
And you can write as accurately called the gray cable, because it'll also have to buy.