I wonder if there is a connection with the very popular (mid 1970s) PLATO game
"empire". That was a Star Trek inspired game with graphics, up to 30 players,
four teams.
paul
> On Mar 31, 2023, at 2:37 PM, William Sudbrink via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In 1979, on an HP3000, we used to play a game called galaxy. It seems
> somewhat like the description on your web page but I'm sure it allowed for
> more than four players. I don't know if Frank McConnell still reads this
> list, maybe he knows if there was any relation between the two. One thing I
> remember is that, if you ran the game and no one else was on, you could go
> hunting derelicts, ships that were still in the game database, left when
> someone disconnected without properly exiting the game. Whenever the game
> was running, it would continue to update the position of these ships, based
> on their last speed. The long range sensor display could zoom out to show
> the whole universe and you could see a cloud of derelict ships at the extreme
> edges.
>
> Bill S.
>
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