points by drjasonharrison 15 hours ago | 0 comments
You couldn't play anything on a VT100 except "please mainframe run this program"
That's like saying you played games on your dad's Philips G8.
That's like saying you played games on your dad's Philips G8.
Larn was a text-based RPG that was in fact easily run as a networked game over a modem to a server at GenRad where my dad worked. Details escape me (it was over 40 years ago, I was like 12 years old) but these basics are factual.