Back in the 1980's to early 1990s, I ran a popular east coast bulletin board system (BBS) called Maddog Productions. This BBS was one of the first dial-up networked BBS that featured CDROM library of software. Using a door called ROMDOOR, we were able to host up to 14 CDROMs to serve up public domain software and images. This technology quickly moved Maddog Productions to the top of the list for software before there was even a popular Internet.
In addition to the software library and downloads, another popular product of the BBS days were Doors. Doors were exits from the BBS software to other programs, typically games, but there were also utilities that were doors as well. But the popularity of Doors were the games. Such games such as SuperSlots, TradeWars 2002, Barren Realms Elite (BRE) and Solar Realms Elite (SRE) were popular games. Barren Realms Elite had an interleague play where the players on one BBS would play against another game on another BBS. Sometimes these were far away, and due to the time it took for store and forward networking using FidoNet, it took days to find out if your battle was successful or not.
Now it is 30+ years later and the internet dominance made the BBS obsolete, but I was looking for a way to re-invent that spirt of members that liked to play those types of games. Game turns were limited, meaning you logged in daily, played your turns and logged out. And when a battle was sent you waited days to find if you won or lost. Using the power of Claude AI, I have created some similar game play to some of these older 1990's game. While the memory and inspiration is weak after 30 years, I have used some inspiration and thinking with Claude AI to create a fresh new game play called Imperial Barons Online (A space Trader Game) and Imperial Dominion Online (A Civilization with War Factions game, including Interleague play).
In the success of this story would be if other Word Press sites spun up and configured them to play these turn based games the same way. This is a unique style of game play.
FIDONET
FidoNet was a worldwide network of bulletin board systems (BBSes) that let computer users exchange messages and files before the Internet became popular. Messages were passed between computers using modems and telephone lines, usually overnight to save on long-distance costs. It provided email-like messaging and public discussion groups called EchoMail. FidoNet was especially popular during the 1980s and early 1990s. It largely declined as Internet access became widespread. It was FidoNet that networked BRE. Today we have the internet, so the internet can network Imperial Dominion and we have added some rules and wait periods to represent the time it would take to reach the batttle and return with the result.
This was my later banner as we were part of FidoNet and RaceNet.
