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Way back in the late 1980's, I used to call up a local BBS and play a TEXT-based game called Galactic Empire. Basically, you had soldier planets, mining planets, and food planets, and the Galactic Empire stock market. You could form alliances with other players, providing weapons, troops, etc.... You romped around the galaxcy waging war and making friends and defeating opponents all in a TEXT-based strategy game. THIS GAME ROCKED. Does it still exist? I figured some egg head somewhere preserved this and wrote it for some UNIX variant. It sure would be nice to play this game again. Anyone know where I can get it?
Incidentally, I used to play this game on my Apple IIgs with a 1200 baud Apple modem. I think the program I used was "MouseTalk" which had a text interface with drop-down menus using Apple II mouse characters - very cool and very fast alternative for GUI with drop-down menus and stuff. Later I switch to "ProTerm" because of redial features. You see, everyone would try to play Galactic Empire on this one small BBS that had one phone line. Our goal, me and my college buddies (who had alliances), was to all meet over at someone's apartment at 11:00PM. Then we would all take turns logging onto the BBS, running thru 4 cycles of Galactic Empire, doing our damage, and logging back on just after midnight and running through another 4 cycles, maximizing the damage to our opponents. You could only run thru 4 cycles in a 24 hour period, so this just added to the excitement of destruction and decimation.
chemistry_geek
Incidentally, I used to play this game on my Apple IIgs with a 1200 baud Apple modem. I think the program I used was "MouseTalk" which had a text interface with drop-down menus using Apple II mouse characters - very cool and very fast alternative for GUI with drop-down menus and stuff. Later I switch to "ProTerm" because of redial features. You see, everyone would try to play Galactic Empire on this one small BBS that had one phone line. Our goal, me and my college buddies (who had alliances), was to all meet over at someone's apartment at 11:00PM. Then we would all take turns logging onto the BBS, running thru 4 cycles of Galactic Empire, doing our damage, and logging back on just after midnight and running through another 4 cycles, maximizing the damage to our opponents. You could only run thru 4 cycles in a 24 hour period, so this just added to the excitement of destruction and decimation.
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