From what I understand of telecom of that era. You want to effectively keep as much of the signal digital as possible. With (ideally) the only "analog" part remaining being the link between the customer modem and the PBX.

The VG224 being (effectively) 24 ATA's in a trenchcoat seems to meet that requirement. Though once installed you'd need to connect it to a PBX such as Asterisk. Then, as I understand it, "trunk" that as a T1 line into something that can digitally handle modem calls such as a Cisco AS5300.

PS: Still waiting to hear about the "Westwood's reaction" blog post! :p

EA a while back released the source code to (most) of the old Command & Conquer games [2] though interestingly left out Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, StarCraft's closest competitors at the time.

Would've been nice for historical preservation to be able to peek behind the curtain and see StarCraft's code in a similar fashion

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/68xzxt/star...

[2] https://github.com/electronicarts

Thinking way too deeply into it. Maybe that's the troll. "Look how easily manipulated people are. I don't even need AI to do it!"

Or do I simply disagree with you enough to comment?

I guess you could go ask the slop machine and come back :)

You could've just as easily said "investors are morons" and had the same connotations without disparaging a group of people