8 Dec
2000
8 Dec
'00
6:11 p.m.
Anyone remember having a multi-player D&D/MUD
like game dial-up
service in their city? I'm thinking around 1985 or earlier... it was
some sort of a timeshare system with 8/16/24 ports that people could
dial in to at an hourly rate and play. As I recall it was some sort of
franchise and we had one here in Milwaukee (414 area code) that was
quite popular- I believe it was called Sceptre, but I'm not sure if that
was the name of the game/world/town, etc.
ca. 1985 chat lines were starting to be popular. The ones I frequented
when I was in Madison, WI weren't really D&D type things or MUDs as such.
The BeeLine was Apple II based. Don't know what hardware exactly. I
was bigger into Warlord Chat which was an IBM PC talking to 4 Atari 400s
each handling 2 modems. The PC-Atari interface was an impressive bit of
wire wrap, or so I was told. I never saw it first hand.
Eric