Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Alan Ianson:

 MK> Hey Alan!

 MK> Sep 13 17:46 05, Alan Ianson wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 AI> Actually, Maximus is multinode, even the dos version. I had two
 AI> nodes running at one time along with Binkleyterm.

 MK> Were they running from the same binary?

Yes.  Other files use separate subdirectories to keep things sorted out. 
Not that I've ever gone multiline here,  but I have the capability (under
dos/dv),  I just never had the need.  And I can fire up a local copy and
have somebody call in and get on,  no problem.

 MK> I never tried multi-anything on DOS for the time I actually was 
 MK> using DOS.  I used DOS mostly for testing ideas and did have 
 MK> Maximus on there (single node) but that was a long, long time 
 MK> ago.

Aside from me using TimED for the convenience (I just like it better as a
message editor),  I'm using it _now_.

 MK> I did briefly try it with dosemu when I first switched to Linux 
 MK> around a decade ago.  I didn't much care for that so I abandoned 
 MK> the idea before it even had a chance on the 'airwaves'.

 AI> nodes. Must have cost them a fortune to buy all those modems and
 AI> the telephone lines to plug them into. I agree about dosemu. I have
 AI> wanted to but never have let it go public.

 MK> Right.  Probably a good idea, especially considering the vast
 MK> difference to the way it was done back then to the way you're doing
 MK> it now.  With Linux multinode is entirely possible with just the
 MK> one connection.  :-)

 AI> Yeah, the only problem is there is no linuxy alternative to a lot
 AI> of those wonderful old dos doors.

 MK> There are better networked games though.  ;-)

Doors and online games and such have never been all that much of an issue with me...

I need to start looking at some of this stuff soon.

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