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Re:Alto Trek, a networked multiplayer game from 1978 by massifist on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:05AM (#36769294)
This must have been a blast BITD! I can only imagine.

I wonder if it was easy to cheat since all the network traffic seems to have been (at least potentially) visible to all peers, if I understand correctly. Maybe it spawned the first instance of cheat bots too.

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Re:Alto Trek, a networked multiplayer game from 1978 by andybak on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:28AM (#36769464)
> BITD

For the sake of comprehensibility:

"back in the day"

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Re:Alto Trek, a networked multiplayer game from 1978 by massifist on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:35AM (#36769516)
Good call. Thanks.
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