Online Tic Tac Toe 2.0

File	online-tic-tac-toe-20.hqx
Size	79.2 KB
Version	2.0
Category	Board Game

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Online Tic-Tac-Toe is a multi-user game add-on for the FirstClass Bulletin Board System on Macintosh, released as version 2.0 by Kitty-Kat Software in November 1994. Rather than a standalone application, it is a package of files that update both the FirstClass client settings and the server configuration so members of a BBS can play tic-tac-toe against each other online.Author and releaseThe 2.0 release was submitted to Info-Mac on November 6, 1994 by Charles Delauder (charles.delauder@his.com, Heller Information Services). It was at least the second public release of the game, building on an earlier version that had circulated to FirstClass sysops.FirstClass integrationFirstClass was the dominant graphical BBS platform on the Mac in the mid-1990s. Online Tic-Tac-Toe plugged into its scripting and form system, requiring the sysop to install server-side hooks alongside the client settings update so that turns played by one user would propagate to the other.DistributionThe package shipped as a stuffed archive containing the client update, server instructions, and supporting files. It was filed in the Info-Mac game/brd subdirectory as online-tic-tac-toe-20.hqx.Historical contextThe title is a small but notable example of the BBS-era genre of asynchronous multi-user games that used bulletin-board infrastructure for matchmaking and turn exchange before TCP/IP gaming became routine on consumer Macs.