STellar Chaos

Background
Stellar Chaos is an Atari ST Bulletin Board System (BBS) online game that is ran as a "Door Program", an external program to a compatible BBS. Written in GFA Basic by Roger M. Thomas, it was one of the very few Atari online games available to BBS operators and became fairly popular in the early 1990's. It was available in a shareware version with limited functionality or in a registered version which unlocked all of the game features. It's ability to output ANSI and VT-52 character graphics was unique amongst Atari ST door games and it could handle a user definable number of online game participants. It was released into the public domain and can be found on many Atari ST compilation CDs, namely the Crawly Crypt Archives, and Crawly Crypt Collection compiled by James L. Collins and published by The Crawly Crypt Corporation. A TCP-IP networked, 2-D graphic version of the game was developed for the 16/32-bit Windows PC, but never published.