Actually this is a Star Trek game involving ascii graphics on VT100
terminals, you would choose from Federation, Orion or Klingon ships. It was
a really cool multi-user game, you could talk to the other players in real
time and it got very addictive (until the Admin pulled it off the Vax cause
it was killing it! :-)
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antonio Carlini" <Antonio.Carlini_at_riverstonenet.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: RE: Conquest???
> There was a game called Empire which had a VMS
> incarnation (start with one city, build armies,
> conquer the world, ASCII only).
>
> If that's what you are looking for, I'll see if I can dig it out.
>
> Antonio
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Curt Vendel [SMTP:curt_at_atari-history.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 5:22 PM
> > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: Re: Conquest???
> >
> > I found a few sites with the Unix of Conquest for Solaris, Linux and BSD
so
> > I'm going to try it out and see if it comes close enough, otherwise I'll
> > keep digging around until I find the VMS version, thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Curt
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gordon Zaft" <zaft_at_azstarnet.com>
> > To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 6:58 PM
> > Subject: Re: Conquest???
> >
> >
> > >
> > > At 06:57 PM 7/8/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >[snip]
> > > >So, the question here is, has anyone else ever played this game and
does
> > > >anyone know where I can find it to load onto a 3100 ???
> > >
> > > Yes, Conquest was basically a VMS version of the great Plato
> > game,
> > > Empire (or =empire if you are a purist). I used to have a tarball
with
> > the
> > > source but I have no idea where it is anymore, alas. I assume you
> > google'd
> > > a bit? You might do a usenet archive search.
> > >
> > > GZ
> > >
> > >
> >
Received on Fri Jul 12 2002 - 14:48:00 BST