Snipes novell game

Update this info. Snipes gameplay screenshot DOSGames. You're in a maze, and you need to find and destroy the enemy generators, which spit out ASCII smiley-faced enemies that attack you. Not too intense of a game, but it has some interesting origins: It was apparently commissioned by Novell to test the networking capabilities of early LANs.

So this game from has networked multiplayer capabilities, but don't ask me how to get it to work! Go full screen. Set the Hostages Free. Maze Runner. Snipes is an arcade style action game. You are in a large maze along with a number of generators. The generators create the enemy Snipes, and to win the game you need to shoot all of the generators and all of the Snipes they create. The Snipes are armed as well, and will be firing back at you!

If you lose all of your lives, the game ends and the Snipes win. There are numerous skill levels available; in the higher levels the snipes are more numerous, more aggressive, and the maze walls become deadly to touch.

The player must first specify the number of snipes, hives and difficulty before they play. Each game is different because the computer generates a random new maze. Novell salespersons would typically end their sales presentations by having the users run the network version of Snipes.

SuperSet always retained ownership and copyright for Snipes and network Snipes, but allowed Novell to ship it with every copy of NetWare.

It was very popular with the Novell users, and I had numerous people tell me that come pm the Snipes games would begin characterized by the rapid pounding of the various shooting keys. I think Novell shipped it for about eight years and dropped it when they shipped NetWare v3.

Snipes was also used to test network adapters. Given the nature of how it synchronized the various computers, it would stress the system in unique ways that would expose problems with network adapter cards or driver software.

About three years ago, someone showed me where there was a Linux version of Snipes available. There also is a version of Snipes for Windows. So Snipes still lives! Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out.