Internet News

Meridian 59, a new on-line multiuser game running on the Internet,
got a quick mention a few issues ago. Some more news has now
reached me, and I thought I'd pass it on.

Meridian 59 comes from 3DO (http://www.3do.com) and is a fully 3D
game running on a single server in the USA. It contains a vast
area to explore with numerous cities. Some of the inhabitants are
computer generated NPCs but others are real, live players. The
game is still on Beta test and has a massive 15,000 Beta testers
so with any luck all the bugs should be ironed out by the time it
is open to all.

With so many people involved, character interaction is all
important if you're going to survive, let alone prosper! You can
form allegiances with other players or stick with the system and
join a Guild for extra protection. Naturally there is also the
opportunity to beat up some monsters and collect treasure.

The screenshot I saw looked very promising and I'll be interested
to hear if anyone has personally tried the game during its testing
phase.
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Now a correction to Issue 43's section. In there, I printed some
sites from Bev which are excellent US addresses for text
adventures and related stuff; the official home-page is "A Maze of
Twisty Web Pages" run by Steve van Egmond and the Internet address
is:
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~svanegmo/if/if-index.html
or to access it at the if-archive level:
http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/~svanegmo/if/if-archive.
Last time we left out the /if/ bits. Bev says they are both ways
of accessing the if-archive/ftp.gmd.de site and reckons there is a
quicker route to get there ... does anyone know?




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