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originalucifer @moist.catsweat.com

3d ago

tradewars 2002

i tossed up a server because someone mentioned it in a thread. if anyone is interested in a little nostalgia..

telnet://tw.catsweat.com

only 5 user license, but if theres enough interest i can increase it

history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Wars

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One of my all time favs. So many good memories

I remember playing this on dial-up BBSs back in the day....
If I recall how it works correctly, you fly around for 15 minutes, then get utterly destroyed by someone who's been playing longer than you.

I registered and created WEYLAND-YEETANI CORP. I'm a noob, so go easy if anyone encounters me.

Alright I was a bit too young to play anything like this at it's peak, but I am interested. Do I understand it correctly that the way to play this would on a windows machine in cmd? Quickly tried alacritty and kitty terminals (linux) and I don't think some of the stuff looks correct
EDIT:
Get syncterm, then just do syncterm telnet://tw.catsweat.com
This how the game entering should look like (it didnt look like this at all for me in any of the above term emus)
- its a telnet server, essentially. so any telnet client should work ok...
  ubuntu has it built in ctrl+alt+t 'telnet tw.catsweat.com'
  for windows i think swath used to be the hot client.. not sure about other windows telnet clients
  
  There is a putty Telnet client and also a role in Windows system you can add for a Telnet client baked into the cli

Holy crap. Haven't thought about that game in forever! Nice!

Love it! Never played TradeWars before, did a couple of successful trades today, great fun! Thanks for hosting!

I may partake later tonight. Thanks!

i banged it at max sector count (30k) and max turns, and i think i increased the initial credits to 10k
- If there's interest from othersin actively playing, might be nice to find an IRC channel to lurk in for general game discussion and hangout.

I twlnetted in yesterday, but I realize ansi support really isn't thing on Mac OS.
Anyone have a good terminal recommendation for macos?
- Try if you can get syncterm on macos

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