[HECnet] VMS games?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-10-11 16:25, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:

On Oct 11, 2013, at 4:36 AM, Mark Darvill <mark.darvill at mac.com> wrote:

Flight was the "game" we played when we could get access to suitable hardware in DEC, i do remember playing it on a new vax9000 in multi user mode and it was hot! For those who have not come across the program, it was a multi user simulation with many planes and airfields which also ran over computers connected via decnet. There was also a toolkit to create your own planes and airfields.

http://www.tmk.com/ftp/vms-freeware/decwindows/

Found a copy above. Maybe another use for hecnet....

Mark

I should take a look; I've never seen it.   I wonder if it's a derivative of the PLATO game "airfight".   That was written around 1974, by Brand Fortner at the University of Illinois.   Same sort of description: multi user, several airplane types.   No user defined airplanes or fields, though.

PLATO "airfight" was the inspiration for Microsoft Flight Simulator.

I remember it from when I worked at DEC. As far as I know, it was not a derivative of anything else.
It was pretty cool, but back when I played with it, all airplanes were just wire frames, as was the world.
It ran pretty ok on a uVAX II, though (with GPX).

I didn't know it had been released out from DEC. I played it with people over Easynet.

	Johnny