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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

1242.0. "Age of Sail" by MAADIS::WICKERT (MAA DIS Consultant) Mon Mar 14 1988 14:31

    In Volume 3 Number 3 of "Amazing Computing" (I hate magazines that
    don't use months!) on page 98 there is an ad for "Age of Sail" by
    Conflict Recreations, Inc. It's a multi-player game that
    allows up to 40 ship captains to play via electronic bulletin boards
    (BBS), direct connect modems, or using one computer. Designed for
    play on differing computers, ASII files with game data can be sent
    to anyone, anywhere via modems.
    
    "Age of Sail faithfully recreates sailing allowing one degree turns
    and speed changes of one knot. Positions are calculated with 64
    bit accuracy to ensure ship movement even when drifting in low velocity
    winds"
    
    This sounds interesting. I wonder if we could obtain enough of the
    source to build a message exchange that uses the EASYnet instead
    of a BBS. They don't have a phone number in the ad but they do list
    Email address on Compuserve, PLINK and BIX. Would anyone be willing
    to send them a mail message on one of those services asking about
    implementation details? I think this would be neat!
    
    -Ray
    
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1242.1Anyone seen this Game???TUNER::OPERATORTue Aug 02 1988 02:459
   
    Has anyone seen this program running?  Where?  Was it anygood?
    Our users group is interested in starting a BBS and we would like
    to have this game on it, if it is any good.  We fell for Pirates
    on the IBM, good playing game took 6 weeks to get to be the Big
    Cheese on the High Seese.
    				Dave Nye
    				SNHAUG - Pres.