• DECWAR is a multiplayer computer game first written in 1978 at the University of Texas at Austin for the PDP-10. It was developed from a lesser-known two-player...
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  • development of one of the first true multiplayer computer games. The game, called DECWAR, was a text-oriented Star Trek-type game. Users at terminals typed in commands...
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    "After Spacewar!, several more games appeared on the PLATO system, including DECWAR (1974, based on “Star Trek”), Empire (1974), a Dungeons & Dragons–inspired...
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  • Equipment Corporation distributed another multi-user version of Star Trek, Decwar, without real-time screen updating; it was widely distributed to universities...
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  • "After Spacewar!, several more games appeared on the PLATO system, including DECWAR (1974, based on "Star Trek"), Empire (1974), a Dungeons & Dragons–inspired...
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  • ARchive), a file format used to package Java applications early versions of Decwar, a pioneering multi-user computer game War dialing, the act of detecting...
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  • 1980s and lasted well into the 1990s. The original MegaWars I was a port of Decwar, originally developed at the University of Texas at Austin. A port using...
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  • Games, and variants of the game spread widely to personal computer systems. Decwar in 1978 was also a groundbreaking game. Another is Super Star Trek, an early...
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    Non-commercial space war-games existed previously, notably Star Trek and Decwar Rusel DeMaria and Johnny Wilson, "High Score! The Illustrated History of...
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  • Hikaru Sulu Surak Nyota Uhura Number One Video games Star Trek (1971) Trek73 Decwar Video Trek 88 Star Trek (1983) The Kobayashi Alternative The Promethean...
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  • Adventure game originally hosted on Cambridge University's Phoenix mainframe Decwar 1978 Hysick, Bob and Potter, Jeff MUD 1978 Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle...
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    Community (forums), Games, eCommerce, and email product lines. Louden purchased DECWAR source code and had MegaWars developed, one of the earliest multi-player...
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    six siblings The President wearing a mourning band after his mother's death, December 10, 1941: http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/decwars.jpg...
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  • was in charge of games at CompuServe. In 1982 he purchased a version of DECWAR and turned it over to the programmers at Kesmai, who wrote many of CompuServe's...
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  • except by name; the original was based on the old university mainframe game DECWAR. Island of Kesmai (1985) — The rewrite of Flinn and Taylor's old text action...
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    except by name; the original was based on the old university mainframe game DECWAR. Island of Kesmai (1985) — The rewrite of Flinn and Taylor's old text action...
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