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New Graphical Trade Wars 'Dark Millennium'
7213 noted that
the Tradewars site has announced "Tradewars, Dark Millennium", which presumably will be a MMORPG [?] RTS
based on the terrifyingly addictive game that I used to write scripts to play my turns for me in middle school. Screenshots and descriptions are available, but its gonna be vapor for a long time I'm sure. TW2002 is really where I met Hemos,
Nate, and
Kurt The Pope. God I loved that game.
While you're waiting for Dark Millenium, you can play Blacknova Traders an open source html tradewars at blacknova.net. When DM comes out, you will probably want to stick with the open source version.
I registered tw2002... I want a discount on the new one! :)
-Chris
...More Powerful than Otto Preminger...
I played this with my friends in early high school and it took up a lot of my time. We were obsessed with this game. We kept trying to write clones of it with QBasic. Eventually I gave up and wrote a full-fledged LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon) clone with QBasic. It was huge. I even utilized the modem to make an "online" version of it. This game is a true classic. I'm just waiting for NASA to come out with their commercially available Interdictor Cruiser. I mean, come on! 2002 Is next year!!! Hurry up! I met a lot of people on trade wars too.. It's great for meeting friends.. and enemies :) :)
Long Live TradeWars!!!!!!!!
My .sig says it all... :)
Here's the original announcement:
Quoted off of WWIVnet:
47/50: The Future of Martech Software
Name: Gary Martin #1 @9354
Date: Thu Apr 16 08:59 1992
From: Castle Ravenloft (Topeka, Kansas) [913-842-0300]
Statement of Direction, April 16th, 1992
Martech Software, Inc.
Recently we asked the BBS community if they would be interested in an advanced version of Trade Wars 2002. The response has been overwhelmingly positive! With the exception of a few who expect to get something for nothing, Sysops across the country enthusiastically screamed "YES! YES!" for our advanced Single and Multinode version of Trade Wars 2112.
With this vote of confidence, Martech will be moving ahead on the TW2112 project. We do not have an estimated release schedule at this time.
Some concern was expressed that TW2002 registrants should get a discount on TW2112's cost. We agree. So at this time we are setting forth the following tentative pricing schedule:
Trade Wars 2112 registration (for all versions of TW2112)
For 1 to 4 nodes $35 US
For 5 to 10 nodes $50 US
For 11 to 25 nodes $65 US
For 26+ nodes $80 US
*** Upgrading from a previous registration of TW2002 gives you a ***
*** Fifteen dollar discount on any of the above prices. ***
Trade Wars 2112 Vga Terminal Program $10 US
| Please note this registration is NOT a Sysop's cost, but |
| a user's cost. The TW2112 Term Program will support |
| 640 x 480 256 color mode and sound cards. It will offer |
| many of the features, integrated into it, of the current |
| mapping and database analysis programs. This will be a |
| complete TW2112 environment for your Users! It will |
| even function as a standalone Term package so Traders |
| can set it to dial their favorite TWs games... |
For those that are curious about the multi-node costs of TW2112, we plan on supporting both Multi-process setups (Desqview, Windows OS/2) and Multinode setups (Lantastic, Novell lans. Std file sharing using Share.exe for record and file locking.) The multinode prices reflect the amount of INTERACTIVE PLAY that will be incorporated into TW2112. Users will be able to combat each other realtime, join in mutual assaults on enemies (fleet warfare!), communicate with all active nodes (through Ship Messages) and sit down in the Tavern for a chat... TW2112 will be a new step forward in user interaction for the multinode environment.
Well there you have it. This is the direction Martech is moving to. This summer we will put out a Maintenance release of Trade Wars 2002 first, to cover all known bugs, and add a few new angles to the game. Once thats out work will begin fulltime on TW2112. Sysops who have registered TW2002 will be given FIRST CHOICE when it comes to putting out TW2112. They will have it on their system long before anyone else does. We're doing this to show our appreciation for those who have registered the game and helped to support Martech Software.
For future reference, we will require Sysops to mail in their TW2002 registration letter or card to be eligible for the discount on TW2112. Make sure you have yours in a safe place! Resends on lost letters will be available for our regular processing fee of $3 if you've lost it. To request a resend, fill out all pertinent info about yourself and your BBS and the approximate date of when you registered and mail that to us along with the $3 processing fee. Then HANG ON to your registration letter!
TW2112 is going to blow you away.
Martech Software, Inc.
134 Indian Avenue
Lawrence,Kansas
66046
Wouldn't that just be MMORTS?
Yes, I admit it. Trade Wars cost me as many grade points in high school as Civ did in college.
Alt-027[0;1;44m forever!
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Rob Carlson