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Try NetTrek on an AppleTalk LAN of Mac IIs in 1988. 15 years ago my butt. Try more than double that, and we were well past being teenagers. You younglings have

by bregma 6y ago

Try NetTrek on an AppleTalk LAN of Mac IIs in 1988. 15 years ago my butt. Try more than double that, and we were well past being teenagers. You younglings have no respect. As I recall the experience was enhanced by a goth nightclub that had opened downstairs from the office we were in and was playing the latest releases by the likes of Sisters of Mercy, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, and their ilk. Hmmm, wonder if I can dig out my old Mac from the museum in my garage, throw on some tunes and some all-black clothing, and recreate my misspent young adulthood....

evgen 6y ago
I think you are misremembering. NetTrek was X11 only back in the late 80s and early 90s. "Ogg the base!!!"
- pvg 6y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek#Reception
  - evgen 6y ago
    Ah, a completely different version than the NetTrek [0] that I was thinking about. The latter was a 16-person networked game played on workstations running X11 in a similar time period. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
EricE 6y ago
I rescued two Mac SEs from a dumpster, have my original Mac Plus and have since added a few more vintage Mac's and every once in a while I will break them out and PhoneNet them together over Apple Talk. Authors page here - a nice read: http://fatlion.com/nettrek/ http://fatlion.com/nettrek/
peterburkimsher 6y ago
I admit that 1988 was before I was born, but I was playing games over AppleTalk! Super Maze Wars on my dad's PowerBook connected to the family LC III gave plenty of fun to my brother and I. Why fight in real life, when I can shoot him on a computer game? When we weren't playing networked games, we'd use whatever came on the latest MacFormat floppy/CD. Shanghai II, Spelunx, Shufflepuck, Beebop II. I learned to draw in Kid Pix, and code in Logowriter (not only patterns, but even music synthesis, on a Mac Plus, when I was 7-9 years old).

by bregma 6y ago

evgen 6y ago

I think you are misremembering. NetTrek was X11 only back in the late 80s and early 90s. "Ogg the base!!!"

pvg 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek#Reception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek#Reception
- evgen 6y ago
  Ah, a completely different version than the NetTrek [0] that I was thinking about. The latter was a 16-person networked game played on workstations running X11 in a similar time period. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek

EricE 6y ago

I rescued two Mac SEs from a dumpster, have my original Mac Plus and have since added a few more vintage Mac's and every once in a while I will break them out and PhoneNet them together over Apple Talk. Authors page here - a nice read: http://fatlion.com/nettrek/ http://fatlion.com/nettrek/

peterburkimsher 6y ago

I admit that 1988 was before I was born, but I was playing games over AppleTalk! Super Maze Wars on my dad's PowerBook connected to the family LC III gave plenty of fun to my brother and I. Why fight in real life, when I can shoot him on a computer game? When we weren't playing networked games, we'd use whatever came on the latest MacFormat floppy/CD. Shanghai II, Spelunx, Shufflepuck, Beebop II. I learned to draw in Kid Pix, and code in Logowriter (not only patterns, but even music synthesis, on a Mac Plus, when I was 7-9 years old).