If Bolo seems jumpy or laggy even when you're playing in single- player mode, or if you seem to have more network problems than somebody else with a similar network setup, then make sure you have properly optimized your game:

Give Bolo a reasonable amount of memory, such as 3 MB. Select Bolo in the Finder (single click) and select "Get Info" from the File menu. In the window that pops up, enter "3000" in the box in the lower right to set the preferred memory usage.

Set your monitor resolution to 256 or 16 colors. Bolo only uses 16 colors anyway, and using more colors slows down the drawing of graphics.

Reduce the frame rate to 30 frames or less.

For PPC Macs, upgrade to System 7.5.3, which contains a dynamic recompilation emulator that should run Bolo faster. In addition you get OpenTransport and Sound Manager mentioned below. For network play, upgrade to OpenTransport 1.1 or later, which is standard with System 7.5.3 or later. This can provide a very significant reduction in net lag, especially for modem players.

PowerPC Macs should be running native Sound Manager 3.1 if using System 7.5.2 or earlier, or just upgrade to 7.5.3 which includes it. This provides a significant speed boost especially during hectic battle scenes. Alternatively, if you're short on memory......

Lose sounds entirely by removing BoloSounds from the Bolo folder.

Turn off Virtual Memory, or use Ram Doubler from Connectix.

Within Bolo's Edit menu turn on "Quickdraw Only" and "Use QD Error Diffusion". By using PPC-native QuickDraw rendering, your graphics should speed up. This assumes, of course, that you're using a PPC. But really, these days, who isn't?

Quit all other applications, because Bolo is polite and gives time to background applications. Although the IRC client Ircle lags much less than Homer, you may want to try quitting Ircle too.

Buy a fast modem if you can't get ISDN, a cable modem, or some other direct connex. If you must resort to a modem, turn off all forms of modem compression. This can be done in FreePPP Set-up.