[SGVLUG] OT: BBS Game

[Claude Felizardo via SGVLUG]

OMG, this looks like an implementation of the original Stellar Conquest from Metagaming! 

The first computerized version I ever played was written in Pascal by someone at USC on the old TOPS 10 or 20 timesharing system.  I still have the printout at home somewhere.  The first play-by-mail game I heard about was Starweb by Flying Buffalo which was featured as a backdrop to Saberhagen's novel Octagon.  Then there was VGA Planets on DOS   which featured a GUI client and you submit your orders and a batch engine would process all of the orders.  I think it supported maybe a dozen players?  A group played at work once and I would run the batch process during lunch and people would come over to watch the battle scenes.   Then of course MOO and GalCiv and everything else.   Now we play the board game Eclipse.

 I love 4X games!  Just don't have time anymore.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1708/stellar-conquest <https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1708/stellar-conquest>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starweb <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starweb>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse <https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X

If Tom was still with us I know he would jump at being able to play any of this.

Braddock, how often do you plan to turn the crank or do you guys play "live" until everyone bails?

Claude


> On Jun 15, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Claude,
> The instructions historically were only accessible within the game.
> 
> Here they are:
> https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions/blob/master/src/DOM141M/Instruct.Dom <https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions/blob/master/src/DOM141M/Instruct.Dom>
> 
> It is a stellar conquest game.  There is almost no trace of it online and finding the source and the classic zips necessitated a friend tracking down the original author on LinkedIn.  We are trying to create a github archive of all available versions and source to keep this piece of software history alive.
> 
> It is a lot of fun once you get into it!
> 
> -braddock
> 
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Claude Felizardo via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net <mailto:sgvlug at sgvlug.net>> wrote:
> Braddock,
> 
> Where are the instructions?  Looked around your link and did not find anything about the game itself.  Do you have another link that describes the original game?  Is it a space combat game or land warfare?  Searching for Dominions gives results for many games mostly board and card games. I tried searching for BBSDoorGames and all I could find where zip files but no descriptions.  I remember playing VGA planets with a group when it first came out and that was a blast.
> 
> Claude
> 
> 
>> On Jun 15, 2017, at 6:56 AM, Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <sgvlug at sgvlug.net <mailto:sgvlug at sgvlug.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> If anyone is interested in an old BBS door game circa 1990, I have ported the stellar conquest classic "Dominions" to Linux and we are starting a game of it today.
>> 
>> ssh -p 2224 dominions at braddock.com <mailto:dominions at braddock.com>
>> PASSWORD: conquest
>> 
>> I'm running the game directly, there is no BBS.
>> 
>> If you are interested in the port or various Dominions varieties a friend of mine and I are collecting all known versions and making them runnable again (via DOSemu or native ports in Docker).  See my github repo at:
>> 
>> https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions <https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions>
>> 
>> We loved this game in high school.
>> 
>> The first thing you have to do is read the instructions.  Then you need to print each map sector and scotch tape them together.  Then you are good to go!
>> 
>> -braddock
> 
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