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Article #3Re: Mtrek is a free online gaming experience
From: Francois-Pierre Marcil
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 00:00
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JLF wrote: > > Mtrek is a multi-player real-time game you can play over > the Internet which pits you against other players in > unique ships loosely based on the Star Trek universe. > > The object of the game is simple: To gather as much gold > as possible in your ship without falling prey to other > ships or groups of ships. > > The entire game is ASCII based (sorry, no Quake-like > graphics) but this enables users of even slower > connections to logon and play with considerable speed. > (Even those with 9600 modems shouldn't have too much > trouble playing and surviving). > > Documentation is located in the newsgroup alt.games.mtrek > and many players are willing to help newer players get > their feet wet and learn the basics of the game. > > The learning curve is a bit steep but can be fun just the > same. > > In your telnet connection, go to zeta.acast.nova.edu and > enable the port number 1701. > > Mtrek is a multi-player real-time game you can play over > the Internet which pits you against other players in > unique ships loosely based on the Star Trek universe. > > The object of the game is simple: To gather as much gold > as possible in your ship without falling prey to other > ships or groups of ships. > > The entire game is ASCII based (sorry, no Quake-like > graphics) but this enables users of even slower > connections to logon and play with considerable speed. > (Even those with 14.4 modems shouldn't have too much > trouble playing and surviving). > > Documentation is located in the newsgroup alt.games.mtrek > and many players are willing to help newer players get > their feet wet and learn the basics of the game. > Excellent source of documentation is: > http://lonepeak.wasatch.com/~rumour/mtrek.htm > > The learning curve is a bit steep but can be fun just the > same. > > In your telnet connection, go to zeta.acast.nova.edu and > enable the port number 1701. > > Alternatively, from a shell account type this at your command prompt: > telnet zeta.acast.nova.edu 1701 > > Put in a ship name of your choosing (the name might already be > taken...choose another), and pick a ship class. Despite the nostalgia, a > Constitution class startship is a *really* bad ship for a beginner. > > Good luck Let's talk about Quake2 not others games please FP
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 113685,c8e6869847f148dc X-Google-Attributes: gid113685,public X-Google-Thread: f5610,adfc2220f198ba93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5610,public X-Google-Thread: faafa,c8e6869847f148dc X-Google-Attributes: gidfaafa,public X-Google-Thread: 107a63,c8e6869847f148dc X-Google-Attributes: gid107a63,public X-Google-Thread: f8c8b,adfc2220f198ba93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8c8b,public X-Google-Thread: 113106,adfc2220f198ba93 X-Google-Attributes: gid113106,public X-Google-Thread: f8dce,adfc2220f198ba93 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8dce,public X-Google-Thread: 114de3,adfc2220f198ba93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114de3,public From: Francois-Pierre Marcil <fpmar@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Mtrek is a free online gaming experience Date: 1998/03/19 Message-ID: <35110B6A.5DB1@yahoo.com> X-Deja-AN: 335578483 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6eqjv9$eum$17@excalibur.flash.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tyrannia Software MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:04:15 EST Reply-To: fpmar@yahoo.com Newsgroups: alt.games.mtrek,alt.games.mechwarrior2,alt.games.quake2,3dfx.game.glquake,3dfx.game.requests,3dfx.game.support,3dfx.game.titles,3dfx.game.titles.glquake,3dfx.game.upcoming