q: old dial-up MUD-like commercial game?

The Sceptre of Goth. I forget its original name, but it was originally written in BASIC with additional assembly language pieces. originally written on and for the MECC computer (Minnesota Educational Computer Consortium, or something like that) which was a Control Data Cyber system that was connected to remote terminals in various High Schools across the state of Minnesota. there were MANY games written on that system, many of which were multi-user. The program was running well before 1981 when I started attending classes at the University of Minnesota (which had its own Cybers of course, but word gets around...). later the game was commercialized in several cities. if i recall correctly, it was written by Alan Klietz? To add new castles (areas) the game had to be taken down and recompiled. Of course, at the U of Minnesota, the game of choice was Karnath, a HUGE 3D cube of rooms, multi-user, the maze being randomly generated when the person who ran the game decided to start a new game. And for the lucky devils who worked downtown at CDC headquarters, the game of choice was probably Archon (?) or whatever it was called, it used line drawing plato terminals to visually show a 3D maze, and you could talk with other players at other sites, etc. -Lawrence LeMay > > Just wondering what kind of hardware & software was hosting this game; > it was quite addictive (or perhaps I was mesmerized by trying to use an > 80-column terminal on a C64). > > Thanks, > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Ryan K. Brooks V: 414-908-9011 > r(a)hack.net F: 707-885-4944 > Chief Scientist / Time Warner Telecom N9YBX > >