the neighbours came around for a some multiplayer starcraft action

Friday is just another day for me, I don't work at the moment so I barely have a TGIF feeling at all. My aunt has flown in from BC so that should be an interesting visit 😀 Other that my weekend is same old, same old.

Multiplayer old school games? Makes me wonder: what's the earliest game that includes multiplayer? I guess it's not something can be done easily in DOS, and chances the only protocol supported is IPX.

Old school multiplayer gaming for me would be difficult. That would involve purchasing a Data General MV/10000 with AOS/VS as the operating system and 2 or more Dasher DG210 terminals.

Then I would need to find a version of Conquest and install that.

Oh yeah - and build a new room for the computer and the cooling equipment.

MiniMax wrote:

Old school multiplayer gaming for me would be difficult. That would involve purchasing a Data General MV/10000 with AOS/VS as the operating system and 2 or more Dasher DG210 terminals.

A what?

REUTERS wrote:

Published: January 29, 1985

The Data General Corporation said it had introduced a new high- end superminicomputer, the Eclipse MV/10000 SX, which can process 3.6 million instructions a second. The company said pricing starts at $223,000 for the processor, four megabytes of memory and system software. The new system increases performance about 30 percent, Data General said.

Edit: I couldn't find a picture of the MV/10000, but this one of the MV/20000 is quite similar. The main difference between the 10K and the 20K is that the 20K supports 2 CPU's.

The last MV's I had the pleasure of working with was a couple of MV/40000's. These babies allowed you to hot-plug and unplug almost everything, include the CPU's while the system was running.

... and it was 1985...