Wow you played begin too! I added multiplayer through DOSbox--
it was interesting that the AI craft were just like player craft but had a different controller. It was possible to splice in keyboard input for that. Then I wrote some screen scraping software to send the commands remotely.
Unfortunately the sourceforge matchmaking server has long gone offline, but you could connect direct to IP addresses too, so it should still be playable
Ya we briefly corresponded in a mailing list some time back... he liked the multiplayer version, but wasn't interested in opening the source code yet. Maybe one of these years he will--I should reach out again... until them I have some pretty well annotated IDA file
it was interesting that the AI craft were just like player craft but had a different controller. It was possible to splice in keyboard input for that. Then I wrote some screen scraping software to send the commands remotely.
Here's the software project http://begin2.sourceforge.net/
Unfortunately the sourceforge matchmaking server has long gone offline, but you could connect direct to IP addresses too, so it should still be playable