<s>
Snipes	O
(	O
diminutive	O
for	O
Snipers	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
text-mode	B-Application
networked	O
computer	O
game	O
that	O
was	O
created	O
in	O
1983	B-Application
by	O
SuperSet	O
Software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Snipes	O
is	O
officially	O
credited	O
as	O
being	O
the	O
original	O
inspiration	O
for	O
NetWars	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
earliest	O
text	B-Application
mode	I-Application
multi	O
player	O
games	O
,	O
running	O
on	O
Novell	B-Operating_System
NetWare	I-Operating_System
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
objective	O
of	O
the	O
game	O
is	O
to	O
control	O
your	O
creature	O
by	O
moving	O
it	O
around	O
a	O
maze	B-Application
to	O
destroy	O
snipes	O
and	O
their	O
hives	O
,	O
and/or	O
destroy	O
other	O
networked	O
players	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
game	O
is	O
different	O
because	O
the	O
computer	O
generates	O
a	O
random	O
new	O
maze	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
next	O
choice	O
is	O
a	O
number	O
,	O
which	O
controls	O
the	O
maximum	O
number	O
of	O
snipes	O
that	O
may	O
exist	O
,	O
how	O
many	O
hives	O
are	O
initially	O
created	O
within	O
the	O
maze	B-Application
,	O
and	O
how	O
many	O
lives	O
the	O
player	O
is	O
given	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
exact	O
implementation	O
details	O
of	O
this	O
are	O
not	O
known	O
but	O
experiments	O
have	O
shown	O
that	O
Snipes	O
can	O
be	O
played	O
between	O
Windows	O
workstations	O
in	O
a	O
Command	O
Prompt	O
window	O
under	O
Windows	B-Application
XP	I-Application
,	O
provided	O
that	O
each	O
user	O
maps	O
a	O
drive	O
to	O
the	O
executable	O
location	O
with	O
read/write	O
rights	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
also	O
implies	O
that	O
IPX	B-Protocol
is	O
not	O
directly	O
used	O
by	O
Snipes	O
to	O
communicate	O
between	O
clients	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
newer	O
implementation	O
of	O
the	O
game	O
was	O
developed	O
and	O
shipped	O
with	O
NetWare	B-Operating_System
Lite	O
1.1	O
in	O
September	O
1991	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
NLSNIPES.EXE	O
executable	O
had	O
a	O
filesize	O
of	O
less	O
than	O
18KB	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
replaced	O
by	O
the	O
NetWars	B-Application
2.06	O
game	O
,	O
that	O
came	O
bundled	O
with	O
Personal	O
NetWare	B-Operating_System
1.0	O
and	O
Novell	O
DOS	O
7	O
since	O
late1993	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
July	O
2016	O
,	O
a	O
port	O
of	O
the	O
original	O
Snipes	O
to	O
the	O
Simple	B-Operating_System
Direct	I-Operating_System
Media	I-Operating_System
Layer	I-Operating_System
became	O
available	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
C++	O
source	O
code	O
is	O
available	O
at	O
GitHub	B-Application
.	O
</s>
