Tic Remote
| Filename | tic-remote-10.hqx |
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| Size | 164.9 KB (168808 bytes) |
| Downloads | 10 |
TicRemote 1.0 is a small Macintosh shareware release by Eelco van Beek that turns tic-tac-toe into a two-player network game played over the Internet. The author pitched it as the first entry in a planned series of remote-play board games, distributed through Info-Mac in the mid-1990s.
Tic-tac-toe over the Internet
The hook, per the author's own one-line summary, is simple: "Play Tic-tac-toe over the Internet!" Two Macs connect across the network and trade moves on a shared 3x3 board rather than passing the keyboard.
A planned family of games
The release notes hint at "lots of other games in the future" using the same remote-play scaffolding, suggesting TicRemote was as much a proof of concept for the network layer as a finished product.
Distribution
Version 1.0 was posted to Info-Mac under the brd (board games) category with the author's email and a personal homepage on knoware.nl as the points of contact.
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