Re: [SWCollect] What game was it?

[Jim Leonard]

Hugh Falk wrote:
 
 Somebody just sent me an e-mail with this question.  I don't know the
 answer, but thought I'd pose it to the group:
 
 Just a quick game question from the mid-80's.  I remember a multi-user space
 game for DOS, rudimentary graphics but supported two players via model or
 null modem.  The game play consisted of each player controlling a base and a
 few spaceships.  The object was to find the other player's base and destroy
 it.  I believe the game was an early shareware game.  Any chance you would
 remember the name?

I already replied to him asking him to clarify if it was character
graphics (text mode) or graphics mode (CGA/EGA/whatever).  However, I
can't say that I actually remember it.

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[SWCollect] What was the first IBM game to have mouse support?

[Chris Newman]

As far as I know the titleholder is Ogre, an Origin release from 1986.
(See attached screenshot).

Aside from Windows 1.0a, which arrived in November 1985, were there any
commercial products for the PC line with mouse support? GEM perhaps? I
know some folks wrote their own public domain programs which included
homebrewed mouse drivers, but what about business-land?

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