A little off topic here, but that name, Stuart Cheshire, seemed familiar. Where would I have heard of him before? From some old game I used to play, I thought.

A little off topic here, but that name, Stuart Cheshire, seemed familiar. Where would I have heard of him before? From some old game I used to play, I thought. RoboWar? No... Bolo! Great little game on the Macintosh. Networked game with tanks and pillboxes and resources and alliances and a "little green man" who you could command to run from your tank to harvest trees and place mines and buildings and roads. Lots of interesting mechanics packed into one little game form 1987. You could even write "AI" modules to help you out or run the game entirely. I think it used token ring networking, but maybe that was only when it was played on AppleTalk. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_%281987_video_game%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_%281987_video_game%29 Text and pictures describing how to play: http://bishop.mc.duke.edu/bolo/guides/bolomanual/ http://bishop.mc.duke.edu/bolo/guides/bolomanual/