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Quantum Link (or Q-Link) was a U.S. online service for Commodore 64 and 128 personal computers that operated from November 5, 1985 to November 1, 1994. It was operated by Quantum Computer Services of Vienna, Virginia, which in October 1991 changed its name to [[America online news, and instant messaging (using On Line Messages, or OLMs). Other noteworthy features included online multiplayer games like checkers, chess, backgammon, and hangman; casino games such as bingo, slot machines, and poker in RabbitJack's Casino; and an interactive graphical resort island called Habitat while in beta-testing and later renamed to Club Caribe. Quantum Link main menu, from the Q-Link software on the Commodore 64. ...
Quantum Link main menu, from the Q-Link software on the Commodore 64. ...
An online service provider is an entity which provides a service online. ...
The Commodore 64 is the best-selling single personal computer model of all time. ...
The Commodore 128 (C128, CBM 128, C=128) home/personal computer was Commodore Business Machiness (CBM) last commercially released 8-bit machine. ...
November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 56 days remaining. ...
1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
November 1 is the 305th day of the year (306th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 60 days remaining. ...
1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ...
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Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. ...
1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For other uses, see News (disambiguation). ...
A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface // Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ...
starting position on a 10×10 draughts board Draughts, also known as checkers, is a group of mental sport board games between two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over the enemys pieces. ...
Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ...
Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice and the winner is the first to remove all his pieces from the board. ...
Hangman is a paper and pencil guessing game for two players. ...
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It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Housie. ...
Slot machines in the Trump Taj Mahal A slot machine (American English), poker machine (Australian English), or fruit machine (British English) is a certain type of casino game. ...
A game of Texas holdem, the most popular form of poker, in progress. ...
Habitat was an early and technologically influentual online role-playing game developed by Lucasfilm Games and made available as a beta test in 1987 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online. ...
Club Caribe was one of the first graphical online worlds. ...
Club Caribe was developed with Lucasfilm Games and was designed using software that would later form the basis of Lucasfilm's Maniac Mansion SCUMM story system. Users controlled on-screen avatars that could chat with other users, carry and use objects and money (called tokens), and travel around the island one screenful at a time. It was a predecessor to today's MMOGs. Official LucasArts logo LucasArts Entertainment Company (sometimes shortened to LEC), is a video game developer and publisher. ...
Maniac Mansion is a graphical adventure game originally released in 1981 by Lucasfilm Games (now known as LucasArts). ...
SCUMM stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion and is a scripting language developed at LucasArts (known at the time as Lucasfilm Games) to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion. ...
Example of an avatar as used on internet forums. ...
A massive multiplayer online game (MMOG) is a type of computer game that enables hundreds or thousands of players to simultaneously interact in a game world they are connected to via the Internet. ...
Connections to Q-Link were typically made by modems with speeds from 300-2400 bit/s, with 1200 bit/s being the most common. The service was normally open weekday evenings and all day on weekends. Pricing was $9.95 per month, with additional fees of six cents per minute (later raised to eight) for so-called "plus" areas, which included most of the aforementioned services. Users were given one free hour of "plus" usage per month. A modem (from modulate and demodulate) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. ...
In telecommunications and computing, bit rate (sometimes written bitrate) is the frequency at which bits are passing a given (physical or metaphorical) point. It is quantified using the bit per second (bit/s) unit. ...
Week End The weekend is a part of the week lasting one or two days in which most paid workers do not work. ...
The system competed with many other online services like CompuServe and The Source, as well as Bulletin board systems (single or multiuser), including gaming systems such as Scepter of Goth and Swords of Chaos. Quantum Link's graphical display was better than many of these competing systems because it used specialized client software with a nonstandard protocol. However, this specialized software and nonstandard protocol also limited its market, because only the Commdore 64 or 128 could run the software necessary to access Quantum Link. CompuServe, (in full, CompuServe Information Services, or CIS), was the first major commercial online service in the United States, dominating the field during the 1980s and remaining a major player through the mid-1990s when it was sidelined by the rise of information services, such as AOL, who adopted pricing...
The Source was the name of an early on-line service. ...
Ward Christensen and the computer that ran the first public Bulletin Board System, CBBS from BBS: The Documentary “BBS†redirects here. ...
Scepter of Goth, also spelled Sceptre of Goth, was an early multi-user text-based adventure game, a genre now typically called a multi-user dungeon or MUD. Originally written by Alan E. Klietz, Scepter of Goth was one of the first commercial MUDs, usually implementing a fantasy setting in...
Swords of Chaos is a computer game by Mark Peterson of the type called a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon). ...
In the summer of 2005, Commodore hobbyists reverse engineered the service allowing them to create a Q-Link protocol compatible clone called Quantum Link Reloaded which runs via the Internet as opposed to using telephone lines. Using the original Q-Link software as a D-64 file, it can be accessed using either the VICE Commodore 64 emulator (available on multiple platforms, including Windows and Linux), or by using authentic Commodore hardware connected to the Internet by way of a serial cable connected to a PC with internet access. Image:Http://www. ...
Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ...
It has been suggested that Criticism of Linux be merged into this article or section. ...
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Habitat was an early and technologically influentual online role-playing game developed by Lucasfilm Games and made available as a beta test in 1987 by Quantum Link, an online service for the Commodore 64 computer and the corporate progenitor to America Online. ...
Club Caribe was one of the first graphical online worlds. ...
External links - Remember Q-Link
- Quantum Link Reloaded
- AOL Disk Collection: Q-Link
- JohnD39's Q-Link contact/memories site
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