Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!chaph.usc.edu!aludra.usc.edu!zuckerma From: zuckerma@aludra.usc.edu (David Zuckerman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Sierra's gaming network (was re: CDTV etc.) Message-ID: <17941@chaph.usc.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 20:32:53 GMT References: Sender: news@chaph.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 51 Nntp-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu In article kudla@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: >rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >>Now that there are finally game machines comming out with serial ports(CDTV), >>will there be online services JUST to play multi-player games on?? Anyone hear >>of anything like this? Or is it just too early to speculate? > >Well, Sierra is starting an online service devoted exclusively to >multiplayer interactive gaming.... I don't remember the name, but if you >pick up the July COMPUTE! (which I haven't bothered to drop only because >it's so cheap I wouldn't get much of a refund anyway) there's a little box >devoted to it. Basic concepts: Will eventually allow you to play your >Sierra games that support a modem with just about anyone for $12 a month in >big cities and $2 an hour outside urban areas. They're also supposedly >developing really cool interactive adventure type games like the old Habitat >on Qlink would have been (I imagine) but at the moment the only net-specific >games they have are things like backgammon. What I'm wondering: what are the chances of Sierra actually developing the software to be used on an Amiga? The beta's been going on here in the L.A. area (I almost sent away for a test kit, even though I don't have an IBM, just to see what it's all about) for a few months now, and the date in Compute announces a startup time sometime this month. I'd love to give this thing a try (flat-rate telecom services are few and far between on any CBM machine... 'tis probably why the only pay network I'm semi-active on is Q-Link). I would LOVE to see 'em do a Hab-like environment. I spent almost 2 years as a Club Caribe Guide on Q-Link before the majority of the CCG positions were eliminated recently. I still believe that was one of the best telecom ideas to see daylight... The name of the proposed service is TSN (The Sierra Network). And I agree with you on Compute. :-) >I'm pretty psyched for it, though ten to one I'll get lumped in the 2 bucks >an hour crowd.... Ditto, except L.A. will probably be a flat-rate area. >-- >Robert Jude Kudla, for the moment.... > >"Oh, forgive me, Assembly'O'God! > Oh Jaysus, I jest stuck the tip in, oh ma god...." -Dave -- David Zuckerman | "There's nothing wrong with my sense | Exercise // zuckerma@aludra.usc.edu | of reality. I have it thoroughly | good \\ // Univ of Southern CA | serviced every fortnight." | taste...\X/ Floyd the Droid Fan Club | - Zaphod Beeblebrox | Go Amiga...