How many of you remeber the BBS days back in the late 80's and early 90's? Back when you would call in play games and go on with your life? Well I'm trying to duplicate one of those old games. It was called Trade Wars 2002(Created by Martech Software). So I decided to make a game similar to it that runs in Linux.

Currently I'm working on this project in my free time as a small coding project. If you would like to help, please contact me.

Status: Rewrite on the server code

Much thanks to Jason C. Garcowski who has helped me greatly with this project.

• Mandrake 7.1 Kernel 2.2.15-4 on a i686
• Red Hat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.14-12 on an alpha
• Red Hat 6.2 Kernel 2.2.14-12 on an i686
• Red Hat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on a sparc
• Gentoo 1.4a Kernel 2.4.20 on i686 (with and w/o the ebuild)
• Gentoo 1.4a Kernel 2.4.21 on alpha (with and w/o the ebuild)

• SunOS 5.7 (Bad Thread Address problems in server) Client works

• Server client interface
• General sector to sector movement as well as auto-pilot
• Player logins
• Basic Ship and player information
• Basic Real Time Player interactions
• Ports and trading Algorithm
• Complete Universe Creation Program
• Class 0 Ports (actual trading!)
• User configurable planet and ship types
• User configurable max planets, ships, players and ports
• Attacking other players

• Adding in more planet stuff

• Stardock with basic hardware store
• Planets with working citadels up to and including level 3

• Stardock and its close kin with basic options
• Planets with level 1 Citadels and Drones/Fighters
• Random Advanced aliens and tactical stuff.
• Complete Universe Creation Program

• Advanced Stardock options
• The Feds and Ferrengi.
• Various and sundry extra options.
• WAY in the future, by popular request once everything else is done. Make an Xclient with SDL.

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The name Trade Wars 2002 is copyrighted (C) 1990-2000 by Epic Interactive Software. They can be reached at http://www.eisonline.com .