Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO

From: SINCLAIRB@Agresearch.cri.nz (BRUCE SINCLAIR)

Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4nqmna$ird@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
   ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig) wrote:
<Daz Gedye <DGedye@netlink.co.nz> wrote:
<>
<>>What is Moo?
<>
<>Master of Orion.  A single player fore-runner of VGA-Planets.  Still very
<>popular.
<
<Rather, MoO and VGAP are both directly descended from "Reach for the Stars".
<MoO took a lot from "Civilization", and VGAP explored the PBEM possibilities.

<RftS still has a place on my hard disk.  Why?  It's an amazing game for being
<able to run off a 360KB floppy!  :)  It does have multi-player mode, although
<that mode is the old "hot seat" approach of the different players taking
turns
<sitting in front of the computer.  (yes, we spent a fair amount of time doing
<this at one point).

I first played this on an apple 2e with 48k ... and it was triffic. A great
game done well with a great interface. I've seen the mac version ... nowhere
near as good  :)

<Modern programmers could take some great interface hints from RftS - it's a
<text/simple character based graphics interface that really rocks in terms of
<ease of use.

..and efficiency of code too :)

Bruce

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References

VGAPLANETS v. MoO
cg@primenet.com (cg)
Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
vfamily@interlaced.net (Bill)
Sat, 18 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
DGedye@netlink.co.nz (Daz Gedye)
Sun, 19 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000
Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO
ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000