Postcards –
In-depth Instructions
Postcards –
In-depth Instructions
There should be a BAG visible in the outgoing mail area of the window, this
shows that your postcard is waiting for a train.
Exit to the LOCO desktop.
Create a train "With A Mail Carriage" (do this by right clicking on a train
depot)
Ensure the train passes your post office and then route it to the blue tunnel
you previously placed.
You can check that it has picked up the postcard by right clicking on the
post office again and the outgoing bag should have disappeared
When the train enters the blue tunnel the postcard will be sent to the
Internet server for processing.
If the LOCO desktop fails to contact the Internet server it will place a
YELLOW postcard in your post office and the post office will animate to
attract your attention. The postcard will have text indicating that there was a
network error.
If the server is successfully contacted a new train will enter your desktop
from the blue tunnel this will be carrying a returned postcard. You should
route this train to your post office in order to unload the postcard.
In due course your original train will return, without any postcards on
board.
When the new train exits your desktop through a blue tunnel it will be
deleted.
If you send one postcard to the server it will return one, send two and it
returns two, send three and it returns three, etc.
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To play with LOCO, single Player,
making use of the Internet Server
The required version of DirectX 6 will be installed by the LOCO
Installer. Ensure that you have Winsock Installed (you can achieve this by
installing an Internet Browser)
Make the connection to your Internet service provider
NOTE: this must not be firewall protected
Start LOCO
Select single player and then click the tick button
When LEGO LOCO is running, open the Toybox track tray and select a BLUE
tunnel (this has a picture of two heads on the side). Lay the tunnel down at
the side of the LEGO LOCO screen.
Connect the tunnel with track.
Select and place a Post Office building (this is in the track section of the
Toybox).
Close the Toybox.
Right click on the Post Office this will take you to the ‘Mail Sort’ window.
Select the Pen Pot on the desk to take you to the Paint Factory Window.
Create a postcard, address it to ‘Anyone’, this is the address for connecting
to the LEGO LOCO postcard server.
Pick up the postcard and drop it in the letterbox.
Click on the letterbox again to go to the mail sort window.