15 Aug
2005
15 Aug
'05
11:25 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/modem-wars has more info. Another Dan Bunten
creation.
Agreed, but I
would KILL to be able to play modem games again -- not BBS
games, but games for which the only method of playing against someone
else was via modem or null-modem cable. Dan Buntin's Modem Wars comes to
mind. Some games even let you play against players with completely
different hardware, such as Populus (PC vs. Amiga worked), Armor Alley
(PC vs. Macintosh worked), etc.
Never heard of Modem Wars for some reason. Sounds intriguing. The second was Commbat for the TRS-80 (1980).
Published by Adventure
International (Scott Adams). You played against an opponent on another
TRS-80 connected by a serial (or something). The game on one machine (the
master) generated a terrain map and then transmitted the map to the other
computer. You then had to play "capture the flag".
Substitute "capture the flag" with "stratego" and you've got Modem
Wars. ;-)
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