<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">OMG, this looks like an implementation of the original Stellar Conquest from Metagaming! <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> I love 4X games! Just don't have time anymore.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 105, 217); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1708/stellar-conquest" class="">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1708/stellar-conquest</a></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starweb" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starweb</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_Planets</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse" class="">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/72125/eclipse</a></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If Tom was still with us I know he would jump at being able to play any of this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Braddock, how often do you plan to turn the crank or do you guys play "live" until everyone bails?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Claude</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 15, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" class="">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Claude,<br class="">The instructions historically were only accessible within the game.<br class=""><br class="">Here they are:<br class=""><a href="https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions/blob/master/src/DOM141M/Instruct.Dom" class="">https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions/blob/master/src/DOM141M/Instruct.Dom</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is a lot of fun once you get into it!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-braddock</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Claude Felizardo via SGVLUG <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank" class="">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Braddock,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Claude</div></font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 15, 2017, at 6:56 AM, Braddock Gaskill via SGVLUG <<a href="mailto:sgvlug@sgvlug.net" target="_blank" class="">sgvlug@sgvlug.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-7937152002193060260Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi folks,<br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">ssh -p 2224 <a href="mailto:dominions@braddock.com" target="_blank" class="">dominions@braddock.com</a><br class="">PASSWORD: conquest<br class=""><br class="">I'm running the game directly, there is no BBS.<br class=""><br class="">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:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/braddockcg/dominions" target="_blank" class="">https://github.com/braddockcg/<wbr class="">dominions</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We loved this game in high school.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-braddock</div></div>
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