Display of first networked personal computer game returning

It was thus said that the Great Ethan Dicks once stated: I thought of that as well (it was the December 1980 issue of Byte by the way, and later one it became Flash Attack available on the MajorBBS) but I discountd that as I thought it used the serial port to hook only two machines together; technically that may make it a "network" but not in the general sense of the word (multiple machines). The article itself was written by Tim Striker and someone else I don't recall and pretty much worked as described. Later on, Tim founded Galacticomm, which started out as a hardware company making multi-port serial boards but switched to software when one of their demo program, the MajorBBS, because a hit. I the late 80s, Tim (or maybe it was Scott Brinker [1]) rewrote Flash Attack for the MajorBBS. I even wrote a program [4] to help me play the game (which was encouragd by the company as they realized people would cheat, so they made the cheats available 8-) -spc (Interesting game ... ) [1] Nice guy, but wierdly intense in that optimistic Richard Simmons type of way. I first met him in the late 80s/early 90s when he was still in high school running one of the larger dialup BBSes in Ft. Lauderdale; this was when Flash Attack came out. A few years later in the mid 90s he became President of Galacticomm and during his stint the MajorBBS was being ported to Unix [2] and I was hired to help the port---I ended up quiting two weeks later over differences in coding styles [3]. [2] http://www.kenmaier.com/gcomm/mbbsunix.htm [3] They used K&R style and actively discouraged comments; no function or global variable could not be longer than seven characters (ANSI C89 limit, but realistically the compilers they used allowed more) and they themselves could not rationalize *why* they enforced that style (other than, that's what Tim, Scott and Bob [Stein] were used to). My arguments were dismissed, then so was I. [4] Still have the code and it works for both the PC and PCjr [5]. It was also smaller, faster, less intrusive (it was NOT a TSR) and did not require floating point math, unlike the program written by Galacticomm itself. I could also beat people dialed in at 1200 than those dialed in as 2400 ... [5] Subtle differences in how the keyboard interrupts work; enough that you have to code around them.