I think it’s obvious by now I’m never going to update it. I’m now redirecting the old pages to Micro’s TWGS Search. He’s doing a good job of it. Please check him out if you haven’t already.
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ICE Tournament Announced
The Latest Tournament to Establish itself ICE Created and promoted by Big D . Information about the Tournament Can Be found at The Official ClassicTW Forum. Teams From Ground Zero and Boo! inc. have already declared entries. Good Luck to Everyone
12 Forgotten Online Games
A new article from PC Magazine states:
“TradeWars 2002 is a space trading game based on a classic gaming formula: buy low and sell high. Mix in ship to ship combat and a horde of Star Trek references, and you have yourself a potently addictive strategy game.
TW2002 originated as a BBS door game designed to run on dial-up Bulletin Board Systems. It has since escaped its BBS shackles and made its way onto the Internet at large thanks to the TradeWars Game Server.
You can play TW2002 on dozens of free servers today. The author recommends the ICE9 server for starters, which can be reached via telnet at ice9-tw.com port 2002.“
HHT 2010 starts 10/27
Greetings and Salutations To Traders and Evil’doers everywhere. It is my pleasure to present to you HHT 2010 this game will be held at telnet://twgs.classictw.com:23 Game Start Friday October 29th at 7:30pm Eastern and it will be a 1 team vs 1 team format. Each Team will have 15 people ( hopefully ) . The two team are of course the Current Champs Team Kraaken challenged by the Team of Boo! inc. as well as friends of the corp Lead by Guest CEO Singularity.
The Settings will be 1500 turns per day and 30000 sectors 2 day turn Bank. Mbbs Gold. With many many many creative edits to both settings and Normal Game Ansi’s including various edits to in game menu’s. As these types of edits cant really be exported and because a 30000 sector game hasnt been released. I’ve given Team Kraaken their own practice game on the Classic Server And my team Also has a private game on the server.
If you would like to play please contact Singularity or Myself.(I believe Team Kraaken is Full)..It doesnt matter if you think i don’t like you or if you dont like me. Everyone is invited to participate.Training and Scriipts needed Will be provided !!
The rules have already been worked out between Responsible Parties but basically No Buy Outs and No playing more then 1 account and No Substitions once Game starts…Further No IP proxys that arent yours. You may play under multiple IP’s as long as they are YOUR ip’s.
Further Discussion about the game can be found at the Classic TW Forums
Game Start Friday October 29th at 7:30pm Eastern.
2nd Annual EIS Invitational
Overview
Invitational tournament for servers advertising rebangs at EIS Classic TW Forums. Game features balance edits with modifications beyond Singularity’s original work. Complete edit available for download.
Moderator: Elderprophet (all rulings final)
Format: Last corp standing
Winners listed at: https://www.classictw.com/memberlist.php?mode=group&g=4293 (1 year)
TWA Download: https://www.classictw.com/download/file.php?id=171
Rules
1. No Duping/Multi-accounting
- One account per player
- No accessing teammates’ or opponents’ accounts
- No substitutions after activation (including personal emergencies)
- Multiple IPs allowed if legitimate; no proxies/remote locations
- Random dupe checks conducted
2. No Bug Exploitation
- Game bugs forbidden
- Script spoofing permitted
- Report bugs to EleqTriziT via PM
3. No Mega-Corping
- No hard sharing of assets (fighters/credits/ships/planets/real estate) between server teams
- No cross-podding for alignment points
- Information sharing permitted
4. Moderator Authority
- Moderator decisions are final
Entry Process
Server sysops post teams in tournament thread.
Invited Servers
Start Details
Game opens for team registration, closes when full.
Official Signup: https://www.classictw.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=25899
Big Game 2010 3 Teams!!
Greetings and Salutations Friends, Enemies, Good Traders,and Evil Do’ers Everywhere
It my Pleasure to Bring you Big Game 2010. This year there will be 3 CEO’s Space Ghost, KewlBreeze and TheButcher.
Each of us will be bringing 4 corpies for a Total of 5 people including CEO . All Other players who would like to be part of this tournament are Invited to Join the Draft Pool and be Picked in turn by the 2 Captains.
The Draft Sign up ends on 2/17 and then the Two Captains will Draft thier Team.
Sign up for the Draft here!! https://www.classictw.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25603
The Game itself will start on 3/17 at 8PM and the game will be held at twgs.classictw.com
Space Ghost’s Team Starts with 5 people Space Ghost..Xanos,,The Infamous T.R. Edwards,Helix,,and Skelletor.
KewlBreeze’s Team Starts with 5 people KewlBreeze,, Vid Kid,,ParrotHead,,Zep,,and Saarducci.
TheButchers Team Starts with 5 people TheButcher,,,Kane,,Silience,,Locutis,,And Big D
If you Sign up for the Draft you may be Drafted by and of the 3 Captains..Any Personal Issue’s Can be worked out between CEO’s by Trading.
The TWA File for this game is attached to this post at the Classic TW Forums
Hope to see sign ups!!!!
Replicate the TW Prompt In Linux
Make a look-alike bash prompt for Linux by adding this line of text to the end of your /home/username/.bashrc file…
PS1=”\n\[\[\e[0m\]\[\e[35m\]Command [\[\e[33;1m\]TL=\T\[\[\e[0m\]\[\e[35m\]]:[\[\e[36;1m\]\!\[\e[0m\]\[\e[35m\]] (\[\e[33;1m\]\w\[\e[0m\]\[\e[35m\])? : \[\e[37;1m\]”
Save, logout and then log back in. Tada. Your prompt now looks like this…
Here is what the prompt contains…
Command [TL=<TIME>]:[<COMMAND HISTORY #>] (<CURRENT DIRECTORY>)? :
It’s actually useful. You’re welcome.
Customized PuTTY for Prettier TradeWarring
This was originally posted by Cogwheel at ClassicTW.com. Please note the server pointed out is no longer active.
For those of you already using PuTTY, I have released a modified version (source) which adds a configuration option to return the cursor to the top left after a clear screen (Settings->Terminal->Clear screen homes cursor). TradeWars’ ANSI files expect this behavior of DOS’ ANSI.SYS which is technically in violation of the ANSI standard. I’ve attached a screenshot comparing the two versions landing on Terra.
If you don’t already use PuTTY and would like to have a go, I’ve also created an installer package that includes PuTTY, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono (my favorite monospace font), and is pre-configured to connect to my TradeWars server, including all the appropriate appearance settings to make it look right. You can change the settings to log into whichever server you want, or use pageant.exe to give you easy access to multiple configurations.

We’ll Be Here Another 5 Years (at least)
Just renewed the domain for 5 years. I doubt I’ll ever let this site die after 11 years or so already. It’s older than my oldest child, for goodness sakes.
HHT 2009
Greetings and Salutations Friends,Enemies,Traders,and Evil-Do’ers Everywhere!!
It’s that time of Year again ! It’s time for the Haunted Halloween Tournament. !!!!
This years Tournament will be hosted by telnet://twgs.classictw.com/ And Moderated by ElderProphet.
The HHT will Start at 8pm on 10/31/09 …..
The HHT is a HIGHLY Edited Game that has Had some regular settings But has Never Been *exactly* the Same from Year to Year..I have provided FULL disclosure and Will Be playing.
All Issues to be Handled by ElderProphet and his decison is FINAL.
The TWA that is being provided will also be the MAP used in this Game. Import the Game With All map Edits!!! Do Not Rebang the Game if you Want an Accurate Map.Just import it and open it as is.
Some Basic Settings include but are not limited to.
1200 turns 15k Sector Universe **No Time Limit** 6 members per corp ….Many Other Exciting Settings!!!!
Various Ship and Planet Edits
The HHT Edit Will be opend up for practice at telnet://twgs.classictw.com/ as soon as possible
More information can be found at Classic TW
A few poeple have pointed out that i didnt post Rules and Have asked there to be an End date….It’s Unlikely,,, but VERY possible,, that this game/edit could be Stalemated. I dont want to be playing the HHT at Christmas this year.So I sought out Advice from a few players and have come up with a solution.
For Whatever reason the Game’s TWA keeps aging So to Clarify the game will open with game age of 30 days.
1. The game will have an End Date 12/10/09 23:59:59 Server Time
2. In the Event the End Date is reached the following point system will be in used to determine a Winner.
100 points for every Captured planet that is level 5 or above that your corp owns.
15 points for every sector with at least 1 corp fig.
100 points for a port with at least 1 product upgraded to the max(fuel,org,equip) Buy or Sell.
50 points for every ship that has the Game start date as the Manufactured Date.That you own at the end of the game.
No Buyouts
In the Case of some Conflict ie double exturn or game data corruption The Game Moderators Decision is Final. (Game Moderator = ElderProphet )
also to be more clear
There is No Rules against Information Sharing.
Mega Corping is defined by the Sharing of Hard Assetts ie.Figs.Credits,Citadels,Sectors.
YES Mega Corping IS against the rules.
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