Quantum Link

<h2 id="club-caribe--habitat">Club Caribe / Habitat</h2>
<p class="note">Main article: <a href="/facts/Habitat_(video_game)/QClPHtXz">Habitat (video game)</a></p>
<p>One of the most influential Quantum Link games was <i>Club Caribe</i>, a predecessor to today's <a href="/facts/MMOG/b1e4hutw">MMOGs</a>.
</p><p>Club Caribe was developed with <a href="/facts/Lucasfilm_Games/KpwJclUk">Lucasfilm Games</a> using software that later formed the basis of Lucasfilm's <a href="/facts/Maniac_Mansion/ETdkLxxj">Maniac Mansion</a> story system (<a href="/facts/SCUMM/fHQDlU9E">SCUMM</a>). Users controlled on-screen <a href="/facts/Avatar_(virtual_reality)/AVTBXnrl">avatars</a> that could chat with other users, carry and use objects and money (called <i>tokens</i>), and travel around the island one screen at a time. Club Caribe allowed users to take the heads off their characters, carry them around, and even set it down. However, other users could pick up heads that were placed on the ground, resulting in headless players exploring the game world.
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<h2 id="quantum-link-reloaded">Quantum Link Reloaded</h2>
<p>In 2005, the proprietary server software was analyzed, and a version written in java and reachable via TCP/IP was released at SWRAP 2005.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> The software evolved in two fork hosted on GitHub <a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="popular-culture">Popular culture</h2>
<p>Much of the second and third seasons of the American TV series <i><a href="/facts/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(TV_series)/DR5Mc8ql">Halt and Catch Fire</a></i> is centered around the development and troubles of the fictional tech startup <i>Mutiny</i>, heavily inspired by the story of <a href="/facts/PlayNET/u2hAMx7e">PlayNET</a> and Quantum Link in the 1980s.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> In the show, Mutiny transitions from an online games company to eventually delivering an online subscriber-based graphical chat community for Commodore 64 users, mirroring Habitat.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Habitat_(video_game)/QClPHtXz">Habitat</a></i></li></ul>

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.qlinklives.org/">Remember Q-Link</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070128191653/http://www.sillious.net/QLink/">JohnD39's Q-Link contact/memories site</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"RUN Magazine Issue 35". November 1986. <a href="https://archive.org/stream/run-magazine-35/Run_Issue_35_1986_Nov#page/n103/mode/2up" target="_blank">https://archive.org/stream/run-magazine-35/Run_Issue_35_1986_Nov#page/n103/mode/2up</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>q-link released in 2005 https://1200baud.wordpress.com/q-link-reloaded/ <a href="https://1200baud.wordpress.com/q-link-reloaded/" target="_blank">https://1200baud.wordpress.com/q-link-reloaded/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>q-link evolved in two fork, hosted on github (2015) https://quantumlink.net/ <a href="https://quantumlink.net/" target="_blank">https://quantumlink.net/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>paleotronic (2018-07-01). "A 1980s Quantum Link to a modern-day Mutiny". Paleotronic Magazine. Retrieved 2021-08-20. <a href="https://paleotronic.com/2018/07/01/a-1980s-quantum-link-to-a-modern-day-mutiny/" target="_blank">https://paleotronic.com/2018/07/01/a-1980s-quantum-link-to-a-modern-day-mutiny/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>McCracken, Harry (2016-08-27). "Welcome To 1986: Inside "Halt And Catch Fire's" High-Tech Time Machine". Fast Company. Retrieved 2021-08-20. <a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/3063135/welcome-to-1986-inside-halt-and-catch-fires-high-tech-time-machine" target="_blank">https://www.fastcompany.com/3063135/welcome-to-1986-inside-halt-and-catch-fires-high-tech-time-machine</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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