Might be the old “Star Trek” game? It is still around, I think. Sent from my iPad
> On Dec 9, 2018, at 01:20, Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Many many years ago in a distant galaxy (called Strathclyde University > Computer Science) we ran a game on the > PDPs. It was great at testing out terminal line speed handing and debugging > curses (well that is what we told the > bosses). > > I remember the game as being called “search”. But since we had the source > code it could have been anything. > > It was played on 24 x 80 dumb terminals. It was multi user. In the game you > moved around the universe in your > craft - the display was a kind of 3-D picture (you got closer to a plant and > the planet got bigger - try drawing increasing > circles on a 24x80!). > > You could travel through the universe shooting other craft (friend of foe). > The only craft name I think I remember is > “shankers” - becuase we had source a lot of the craft names turned into > locally relevant names. > > You could team up with other players and (1 line) communication with a group > or with that player. > > I have searched (on and off) for the game. > > I cant find anything like it. > > I would like it to test out the DZ cards on my PDP! - OK that is my excuse ;-) > > Is anybody aware of what I am talking about? Does anyone have any old code > anywhere? > > Aye, it was not as good as the old GT40 - but it was a different era. > > >
