The evolution of multiboxing

[jinkobi]

I sold hot dogs for Gary at the very first Genva con, and slept in his library room while I was there. I first met him when he worked for an insurance company and then was selling shoes after that while working up his gaming business. IFW was the place for action back then. I played all the old Avolon HIll games (made a fortran programe to calculate attacks and defenses in Stalingrad, like 100 pages readout. Me and another top Stalingrad player played at the Genva Con and its like 1 hour per move people come buy expecting the game to be over and we are on move 2) lol ..... we never finished the game.

Ya Gary is one of the few people I have ever known that no one has anything bad to say about.

This is where DandD started and the foundation of most fantasy games today:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainmail_(game))

I read these and had copies of SandT when if first came out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Bodenburg

He had the whole thing set up at the early GenCon, I was amazed with it and bought a whole bunch of minitures. The Huns werer my favorite, so well made.


My first computer game was this I think:

http://www.nethack.org/v343/Guidebook.html

I bought a IBM pc (8080 lolzors) for $2000 bucks right after it came out (used machine heh).

That must be so great to have those memories! Amazing how far computers have came much less gaming. Sucks that so many of this generation have no clue of the history or appreciation.

Still have some of my TSR AD&D books in storage- mint condition no less, lol. Which is really astounding as much as I read those damn things. I'm a packrat and still have numerous drawings of D&D scrawled during many boring jr high school days.

My first computer was an Atari 800 with a 300 baud scrodum err modem Even that POS cost well over a grand.

Oy, yeah - I had an Apple ][ (originally with a WHOPPING 16k RAM, eventually we upped it to a then ungodly 64k) as my first machine. I think it was '77 when we got that, and then a year later we got a disk drive and a micromodem (300 baud, baby!). I used to do horrible things to my parent's phone bill by using BBS's and the like. My favorite was one bulletin board system that would let you play Eamon and you could, if you paid for the premium service (which was some ridiculous hourly rate), play it with 1 other person. There was no boxing, but I did learn Applesoft BASIC inside and out by writing a pretty fun set of BBS software so I could have my own board.

I also remember playing some dungeon game on the PLATO system at school, but I'd have to look it up - I think it was multiplayer, but it might have just had a kind of lobby for people to chat.

Fun times!

LOL. Geez BBS'!! My friend and I were SysOps for a couple of BBS' here in Austin. We used them to trade software- and at 300 baud 700k games taking a day to download. Some of my long distance bills brought down hell from my parents. Had to start mowing lawns to help pay the bill off, lol.

My friend and I were well 13 at the time. He was already a coding genius and is now the head of a multi million dollar company. We started writing and freely distributing BBS software and had built in all these backdoors. With the right commands it would make you a SysOp and invisible, dump the passwords+usernames, total control... Yeah we were jerks but we were 13 year old idiots.

Needless to say some funny stuff was happening on the BBS boards here in the 80's. Log in as every user of the BBS telling the SysOp how crappy his BBS was, lol. Or when I figured out creating accounts as ALL would allow you to delete every message to ALL on BBS'.

Harmless fun at the time. My friend and I laugh about it today because we can't believe we did such things. Very bored 13 year olds with computers. Always a danger