MBMurdock

Background and History

M.B. Murdock & Associates was another of the very early third-party developers for [The Major BBS]. The company was headed up by [Mike Murdock], and was based in Pinellas Park, Florida. [Murdock] developed one of the definitive must-have games for the system – [Galactic Empire]. The game was a combination of the popular multi-user space shooter [Galactic Raiders], an early MBM title, and the PolEcon-based games like Galactiwars (Logicom) and [War of Worlds] ([Moonshae Telecomm]). MBM also released the [Adventure Writer's Toolkit], the first true game-builder engine/platform for [The Major BBS]. MBM's first adventure game, [The Legend of Elyth-Gor], was written with the [Toolkit].

In 1996, as sales of [Worldgroup] software were starting to decline, [Murdock] closed the company's doors and began writing Internet related software. In 2002, [Murdock] released the game [Galactic Empire] for [The Major BBS] 6.25, [Worldgroup] 1, and [Worldgroup] 2 as sourceware under the GPL license.