Gambit
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Also listed as: GamBit Union

"GamBit MultiSystems offered e-mail, interactive chat, interactive
games, and discussion forums from 1983 to 1987. The platform was
an IBM PC-XT running QNX on a 16-port Hostess card with 300 BPS
modems. Its most popular interactive game (or MUD) Scepter of
Goth, was AEK's adaptation of his popular "Milieu" game that ran
from 1978-1982 on the State of Minnesota's educational computing
mainframe (MECC)."
"Scepter of Goth was migrated to a Charles River Data Systems
minicomputer and rewritten into the "Screenplay" program. This
program featured programmable, learning automatons, scripted
games, and a powerful set of internal programming languages for
game wizards ("Hi" and "Lo")."
"GamBit franchised its operation to 12 cities in the U.S. and
Canada, and was sold to a Virginia company named "Interplay" (now
defunct -- no relation to existing companies with that name)."
"AEK's Milieu, Scepter of Goth and Screenplay programs are some of
the earliest historical MUDs. Many of the features of the software
(i.e. learning/trainable automatons) did not appear in general
MUD/MUSH/MOO programs for another decade." - Albatross

Phone   : 612-484-3636
Place   : St. Paul, MN
Years   : 1983 - 1987
Sysop   : AEK, Albatross, Eadgbe, Speedy, Typo
Software: AEK custom QNX 16-port multiuser
Listed  : GamBit Unison

Listed by telephone number, as they all were. A few of
these boards did reach the web: see recoveries-002.txt.
Source  : bbslist.textfiles.com, compiled by Jason Scott

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