I loved spacewar.  It was fun.  I loved how the ships would go super fast
and then stop on a dime.

Are you talking about the old ATARI game adventure?  This was a cool game
also, where dragons would float around and you had to avoid them.
John C. Dalton

jim wrote in message ...
>On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 13:41:29 -0800, Stan Sieler <[log in to unmask]> wrote,
>[snip...]
>>SPACEWAR was important in my computer life ... I read the Analog S.F.
>>magazine article about it (circa 1969?), and got thoroughly hooked
>>on computers while writing a clone of it (on an IBM 1130 work-alike
>>called a Meta 4).  Years later, I met one of the authors of the
>>original SPACEWAR, Bob Saunders.  He also helped write MPE.  Small world.
>
>While off topic, I'm keen to know if anyone has created a visual form of
the
>old "Adventure" game.  It too was an important time in my computer life.  I
>dread to think of the hours lost in "twisty little passages all alike", but
>it was really great.  Required a bit of imagination.  And reading the
source
>code didn't hurt! :-)  I'd be interested to see if a visual form would
still
>be attractive.
>
>Jim Wowchuk
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