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Classic TradeWars 2002 Sold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-remember-back-in-the-day dept.

A reader writes "The rights to the classic BBS game TradeWars 2002 were sold by Martech Software to Epic Interactive Strategy over the weekend. John Pritchett of EIS has been active in the development of the TradeWars Game Server prior to the sale of the actual game. John claims he will begin working on a Linux port as soon as Borland ports Delphi to Linux. Nostalgia! " I remember back when they first made it so you could have different planet types, and than multiple ships. *sniff* So much time wast...er spent.

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  1. Why wait for a Delphi port? by torpor · · Score: 3

    Didn't these games pre-date Delphi? i.e. weren't they written in Turbo Pascal or something?

    In which case, a port to Linux can begin right away - there's already a TP-compatible pascal compiler on Linux...

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  2. You can play tradewars 2002 online right now! by marcux · · Score: 3

    if you want to play tradewars telnet to (telnet://cybernet.dyndns.org) or point your web browser to (http://cybernet.dyndns.org/telnet.telnet.html) or just log intot he site... (http://cybernet.dyndns.org) Support for 100 online users -marcux

  3. UFies bbs by QuMa · · Score: 4

    in case anyone wants to go nostalgic and play again, IIRC the ufies bbs (bbs.ufies.org) still runs tradewars.