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Oh my god, this must have inspired NetTrek, one of the earliest networked Macintosh games that worked over AppleTalk: http://retroweb.maclab.org/articles/Onlin

Oh my god, this must have inspired NetTrek, one of the earliest networked Macintosh games that worked over AppleTalk: http://retroweb.maclab.org/articles/Online-Games.html http://retroweb.maclab.org/articles/Online-Games.html https://macintoshgarden.org/games/nettrek https://macintoshgarden.org/games/nettrek https://archive.org/details/NetTrekTheRealVersionMacintosh https://archive.org/details/NetTrekTheRealVersionMacintosh

noduerme 3y ago
Yes! As soon as I saw it I recognized it... hours of playing after school in the computer lab on the Mac SE/30s ;)
- cpersona 3y ago
  Those were my first networked gaming experiences along with Risk, which we also played using a physical game board. Those are good days.
  - cempaka 3y ago
    Netrek made its way onto PCs also and I remember playing it in probably 1994/95 when it was about the only game our crappy rural DSL could handle. Tons of fun and the requirement for strategic teamwork was probably only rivaled by RTS games.
  - pmarreck 3y ago
    The "black and white Mac" implementation of Risk made it such a breeze to play that I could barely tolerate the physical setup and teardown of the actual board game after it. To this day I'm still looking for a good large electronic game-board touchscreen. (I know there have been some stabs at this... PlayTable?)
bb88 3y ago
We played Nettrek on unix workstations at my college. Basically filled up the labs at night doing so on a Friday and Saturday nights back in the early '90s. What's interesting is that different servers had different styles of games. One was more like hockey, using tractor beams to pull the puck around the playing field. To some extent, I still miss this. The gaming was simple enough, and easy to kind of get into.
Rustwerks 3y ago
https://www.netrek.org/ https://www.netrek.org/
tgv 3y ago
And it reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decwar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decwar (which was based on ... which was based on ...), which was played on a timesharing system. It was fairly well known back then, so I wouldn't be surprised if Alto Trek was inspired by it. I played DECwar once, at night, because only then all the terminals were free, and the operator could run this game.
- pmarreck 3y ago
  http://decwars.com http://decwars.com It may still work... Still loading over here...

noduerme 3y ago

Yes! As soon as I saw it I recognized it... hours of playing after school in the computer lab on the Mac SE/30s ;)

cpersona 3y ago
Those were my first networked gaming experiences along with Risk, which we also played using a physical game board. Those are good days.
- cempaka 3y ago
  Netrek made its way onto PCs also and I remember playing it in probably 1994/95 when it was about the only game our crappy rural DSL could handle. Tons of fun and the requirement for strategic teamwork was probably only rivaled by RTS games.
- pmarreck 3y ago
  The "black and white Mac" implementation of Risk made it such a breeze to play that I could barely tolerate the physical setup and teardown of the actual board game after it. To this day I'm still looking for a good large electronic game-board touchscreen. (I know there have been some stabs at this... PlayTable?)

bb88 3y ago

We played Nettrek on unix workstations at my college. Basically filled up the labs at night doing so on a Friday and Saturday nights back in the early '90s. What's interesting is that different servers had different styles of games. One was more like hockey, using tractor beams to pull the puck around the playing field. To some extent, I still miss this. The gaming was simple enough, and easy to kind of get into.

Rustwerks 3y ago

https://www.netrek.org/ https://www.netrek.org/

tgv 3y ago

And it reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decwar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decwar (which was based on ... which was based on ...), which was played on a timesharing system. It was fairly well known back then, so I wouldn't be surprised if Alto Trek was inspired by it. I played DECwar once, at night, because only then all the terminals were free, and the operator could run this game.

pmarreck 3y ago
http://decwars.com http://decwars.com It may still work... Still loading over here...