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'''Magic Workstation''' (''MWS'') was a popular program created by Magi-Soft that could be used to play ''[[Magic]]'' online. Many considered it the best alternative to [[Magic Online]]. | '''Magic Workstation''' (''MWS'') was a popular program created by Magi-Soft that could be used to play ''[[Magic]]'' online. Many considered it the best alternative to [[Magic Online]]. It went out of fashion around 2010 and was later discontinued. | ||
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Magic Workstation was not designed for any one particular game system, but it represented a universal engine that supported many popular card games. It could support and use any CCG (Collectable Card Game) or [[TCG]] (Trading Card Game). Examples were: ''Magic: The Gathering'', ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' and many more. | Magic Workstation was not designed for any one particular game system, but it represented a universal engine that supported many popular card games. It could support and use any CCG (Collectable Card Game) or [[TCG]] (Trading Card Game). Examples were: ''Magic: The Gathering'', ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' and many more. | ||
Revision as of 06:56, 24 August 2023
Magic Workstation (MWS) was a popular program created by Magi-Soft that could be used to play Magic online. Many considered it the best alternative to Magic Online. It went out of fashion around 2010 and was later discontinued.
Description
Magic Workstation was not designed for any one particular game system, but it represented a universal engine that supported many popular card games. It could support and use any CCG (Collectable Card Game) or TCG (Trading Card Game). Examples were: Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and many more.
Magic Workstation didn't contain any games data except tutorial game database. All game specific databases, graphics, dialogs, settings and scripted routines were a part of the data files provided for a given game system, and those data files were external to the product itself. Game Database files for particular game system had to be downloaded and installed separately.
Magic Workstation consisted of three separated tools:
- The MWSLibrary module — used for organizing, inventorying, and analyzing card lists and game collections. With this module you could easily find any card using many in-depth search criteria. You also could filter cards using a complex filtering function.
- The MWSPlay module — permitting people to play any card game ever made over the Internet. The application itself did not enforce any card game rules. As in real life, the players must know the basic rules of the game that they were going to play. The players connected to a shared virtual desktop where they could see the actions of all the other connected players. This virtual desktop was highly interactive. Players could do pretty much anything that could be done with a real deck of cards| move cards around, flip them, shuffle them, deal them, etc.
- MWSHost — used for when two players could not connect directly to each other (ie. when both are behind firewalls). A third party (a non-firewalled person) then ran MWShost and both players called the third party to set up a game. Magic Workstation had it's own dedicated server for this purpose located at www.mwsplay.net