1 Jun
2003
1 Jun
'03
1:54 p.m.
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Ethan Dicks wrote:
There was a game for the PET that linked user ports
that was available
years before the ST came out. It was well documented in Byte magazine.
I never bought it because I had only one PET. Each player had a fixed
base and a roving tank. The goal of the game was to lob an ICBM on
the other player's base. You located it by exploring with the tank.
I cannot recall the name at the moment, but it's come up for discussion
on the list before.
Flash Attack!
Thanks to help from Larry Anderson, I got a game running for a demo I put
together a few years ago. It was actually pretty cool.
Beware making "first" claims. There's
frequently an antecedent.
Indeed. Even Flash Attack! was a copy of a TRS-80 game that came out a
few years earlier called "Combat" (not to be confused with the Atari 2600
game).
But I think the "first" claim he is making is with regards to more than 2
nodes which, if you define "personal computer" broadly enough, would
easily cover the computers that were used to play the original MazeWar
(mainly Imlacs and Altos, plus some DEC graphics terminals).
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