[HECnet] VMS games?
Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Fri Oct 11 15:25:43 PDT 2013
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.
paul
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