> On Oct 17, 2019, at 12:55 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> are you thinking of conquest?
> https://github.com/jtrulson/conquest
>
> conquest
>
> Conquest is a top-down, real time space warfare game. It was
> originally written in RATFOR for the VAX/VMS system in 1983 by Jef
> Poskanzer and Craig Leres.
I wonder if this is a port of the PLATO game by the same name, which goes back
to 1976 or so. PLATO had lots of multi-user games with various levels of
graphics sophistication. Space war games included "conquest", "empire", and
"spasim" -- that last actually had 3d graphics, which was quite a stretch for
1977. Then there was "airfight" (the inspiration for Microsoft Flight
Simulator) as well as a boatload of "dungeon & dragons" games.
paul
