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From: apratt@iuvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: How about Multiplayer Rogue? (lo
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Date: Sat, 21-Apr-84 15:44:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 21 15:44:00 1984
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I kind of thought that people weren't considering the possibility of a net-
wide multi-player game, but, rather, a site-wide game, using a single machine
with its terminals strung all around a campus or building.  This is no harder
to do than PLATO's COMMON files & ECS, if all the processes cooperate properly.
The existing game I made reference to uses a daemon (why aren't they DEMONs?)
to act as "gamekeeper" and a process for each active player for his own
character. A net-wide game would only work on direct-connect networks
such as DECnet and (?) Ethernet.
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