Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:22:32 -0400
From: LARRY FRIESON
To: ROB WILLIAMS
Subject: RE: wcCasino?
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They were, but the source is available... I worked at MSI, and I don't
reca
who wrote it off hand, but still, we made all the tools available for
people
>to
>write cool stuff with the Navigator, and nobody has...
Ummm, that isn't exactly accurate. I wrote the WCSTrivia game for
WC5, and sold all of about 10 copies....So, there was at least one
other navigator game created (other than wccasino).
Rob
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Opps, sorry Rob! I stand corrected... :) I guess what I mean, is MSI
had the idea for multi-user gaming like XBox Live way back when, but
it's hard to convince game developers to write games for a platform like
this. However, we DID have some big-wigs from Activision out at our
campus once, and they were telling us about this new hot game they were writing, but couldn't really share any dirty details with us at the
time, but we were trying to convince them to write games for Wildcat...
It's too bad that never went anywhere. Who knows.. Maybe people would
be playing Guitar Hero over Wildcat today... heh..
But, in all seriousness, I can't think of what game they were working on
way back when....
With all the hype around the WSOP, I bet a Texas Hold'em Nav Client
would go over prety good right about now. :) Of course, you'd have to
write a Java based one too, so everyone can use it. But, if you wrote a Windows Native Nav Client that boasted some cool features, I bet people
would use it.
In my BBS expierence, I had just the opisite. I set out to make a BBS
called "Missing Links Network" that was all about Networking (Fido,
NNTP, and other such networking, back when PPP accounts just didn't
exist), and as it turned out, all my user wanted to do was tie up all 16
modems chatting all day... So, we became the local "MySpace", the
'Booty Call of Bakersfield' if you will. So, we had to shift our trend
towards chatting. And to this day, the BBS is still up, and I
notice that not a lot of people use it, but god help me if it goes
offline! Users start coming out of the woodwork, "Why can't I connect!
What's going on!?"... It's strange.
I've been meaning to make a Chat Client that people can run like AIM, or
MSN, or YAHOO, but with the way things work now, I'be shifted mine to
more of a Jabber client.
Problem is, we were an ANSI chat board, and it's REALLY difficult to
translate what made our chat popular into a Windows client... :(
But, since Wildcat built my house, bought me my first truck, (not to
mention made me a rich man back in the 90's), I guess it will always be
in my blood, and I will always have a place for it in my heart. That's
why I salaute Hector for taking it on, and belive me. I'd rather work
for Hector doing Wildcat stuff that working in C#, and ASP.NET that I'm
doing right now, but we are 3,000 miles apart, and I can't just
transplant my family.. :(
Larry
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