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The WABAC Machine is a BBS running DOS Worldgroup 2.0, located at bbs.ccsnet.com; it can be accessed via Telnet and a web interface. The board sysop is Joe Cronin. In 2024, Anthony Schmidt and Joe Cronin came to agreement that WABAC would be the exclusive home of ge-next test builds and beta testing. Complete release versions of ge-next are released publicly and are available on other boards as well as WABAC. See Where to play online for the current listing.

Its game menu includes ge-next and classic Galactic Empire. The web interface also contains a web frontend for ge-next (written by Cronin) as well as way to check who's currently online without logging in.

If you're looking for a place to play Galactic Empire, consider WABAC. It has the most active player community, the latest versions of ge-next and ge-arena, along with classic GE, and most of the participants on the ge-next Discord have accounts there.

ge-next testing history

The screenshots below preserve results from public ge-next testing periods on WABAC.

ge-next 0.1 test

From approximately October 2024 through January 2025, ManicPop, Oliver, and Archwiki tested ge-next 0.1. Oliver won the test game, and ManicPop made him this lovely certificate.

ge-next 0.2 test

The primary ge-next 0.2 test ran from June 25 through October 1, 2025.

The 0.2-era game remained available afterward. This was its final roster when it was decommissioned on April 26, 2026:

Scope

These were development and playtesting games, not official tournaments. Their value is as a record of the community that exercised early ge-next releases and exposed gameplay and compatibility issues before later releases.