Alto Trek

created and published by Author in 1972, running on Xerox Alto

type: strategy
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: other
player options: single player, LAN

languages: eng

Descriptions (2)

Alto Trek is a multiplayer game where each player uses their own Alto workstation to control a starship. The objective of the game is to destroy the enemy without being destroyed. A player can choose between being a Klingon, Romulan, or Terran. The game can be played by one player, but there will be no enemy to destroy.

There is no central server that maintains game state. Each Alto "multicasts" its game information on the shared Ethernet that all players must be on. The "multicast" address on which to rendezvous is a function of the number of stellar systems in the game. (see manual)

Becoro # 2023-04-06 21:52:05 - source

For the Xerox Parc Alto microcomputer.
The first game to use Ethernet.
The source code from this game was used to create Allegiance

(Zerothis) - # 2006