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h2. 

Background

and

History

M.B.

Murdock

&

Associates

was

another

of

the

very

early

third-party

developers

for

[

The

Major

BBS

|gcomm:TheMajorBBS]

.

The

company

was

headed

up

by

[

Mike

Murdock

|MikeMurdock]

,

and

was

based

in

Pinellas

Park,

Florida.

[

Murdock

|MikeMurdock]

developed

one

of

the

definitive

must-have

games

for

the

system

-- [

– Galactic

Empire

|GalacticEmpire]

.

The

game

was

a

combination

of

the

popular

multi-user

space

shooter

[

Galactic

Raiders

|GalacticRaiders]

,

an

early

MBM

title,

and

the

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PolEcon

}

-based

games

like

[

Galactiwars

]

(

[

Logicom

]

)

and

[

War

of

Worlds

|WarOfWorlds]

(

[

Moonshae

Telecomm

|MoonshaeTelecomm]

).

MBM

also

released

the

[

Adventure

Writer's

Toolkit

|AdventureWritersToolkit]

,

the

first

true

game-builder

engine/platform

for

[

The

Major

BBS

|gcomm:TheMajorBBS]

.

MBM's

first

adventure

game,

[

The

Legend

of

Elyth-Gor

|TheLegendOfElythGor]

,

was

written

with

the

[

Toolkit

|AdventureWritersToolkit]

.

In

1996,

as

sales

of

[Worldgroup|gcomm:

Worldgroup

]

software

were

starting

to

decline,

[

Murdock

|MikeMurdock]

closed

the

company's

doors

and

began

writing

Internet

related

software.

In

2002,

[

Murdock

|MikeMurdock]

released

the

game

[

Galactic

Empire

|GalacticEmpire]

for

[

The

Major

BBS

|gcomm:TheMajorBBS]

6.25,

[Worldgroup|gcomm:

Worldgroup

]

1,

and

[Worldgroup|gcomm:

Worldgroup

]

2

as

sourceware

under

the

GPL

license.