Since 1997, a much improved version 3 named
Advanced NetWars shipped with
Caldera OpenDOS 7.01,
DR-DOS 7.02 and
DR-DOS 7.03. It added support for
SoundBlaster sound, joystick control, up to six players in multi-player mode, missiles and computer-controlled ships in multi-player mode, and it featured a new multi-player shoot-out mode, an improved
single-player mode, an external view mode, as well as a shape editor NWDRAW to design own space-ships. Despite all these additions, the executable maintained a file size of less than 77 KB.
NetWars and
Advanced NetWars inspired the development of
clones such as Ingmar Frank's
NetWarsGL for
Win32 platforms with
OpenGL in 2002 to 2004, or the Botolib-based
NetWorst. ==References==