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| Developers | Edward N. Hill, Jr. |
| Stable release | v3 / 1998; 28 years ago (1998) |
| Operating system | DOS |
| Type | Shoot 'em up |
NetWars (originally calledLiteYear) is anIPX-based 3D vector-graphicscomputer game released byNovell in 1993 forDOS to demonstrateNetWare capabilities. It was written by Edward N. Hill, Jr., one of Novell's engineers in its European Development Centre (EDC) inHungerford, UK. Development started in 1989.
NetWars 2.06 came bundled withNovell DOS 7 andPersonal NetWare 1.0 in form of a single executable named NETWARS.EXE. It replaced the text-based game NLSNIPES.EXE that came withNetWare Lite 1.1 since 1991,[1] a newer implementation of the originalSnipes, that traditionally came with NovellNetWare.
Since 1997, a much improved version 3 namedAdvanced NetWars shipped withCalderaOpenDOS 7.01,DR-DOS 7.02 andDR-DOS 7.03.[2][3] It added support forSoundBlaster sound, joystick control, up to six players in multi-player mode, missiles and computer-controlled ships in multi-player mode, and it featured a new multi-player shoot-out mode, an improvedsingle-player mode, an external view mode, as well as a shape editor NWDRAW to design own space-ships.[2] Despite all these additions, the executable maintained a file size of less than 77 KB.
NetWars andAdvanced NetWars inspired the development ofclones such as Ingmar Frank'sNetWarsGL forWin32 platforms withOpenGL in 2002 to 2004, or the Botolib-basedNetWorst.[4]
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