Re: VGAPLANETS v. MoO

From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)

Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00:00 +0000

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).

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.  If VGAP was re-written to use the interface that RftS has, it
would be a far more pllayable game.

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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

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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