ron@logico.UUCP (Ron Moore) (09/16/85)
Howdy,
I remember playing empire on VAX/VMS which was not Peter Langston's version.
You played against the computer, and the computer player wasn't half bad.
I had the source back when I was running on a
DEC-SYSTEM 10 (those were the days, weird but still interesting). I know the
computer player in the game was made much more intelligent since I got the
source. I now have access to a number of various machines and architectures,
including a DEC PDP-11/70, and I would like to be able to get a copy of that
version of empire. Binaries would be good, but sources would be much better.
Anybody out there know of a way of getting at the program. Is it only
available as distributed for VAXen ? Anybody at DEC know anything about it ?
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Ron Moore (818) 887-4950
Logicon, Operating Systems Division
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{ihnp4,allegra}!cithep!logico!ronbright@dataio.Dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright) (09/21/85)
In article <161@logico.UUCP> ron@logico.UUCP (Ron Moore) writes: > I remember playing empire on VAX/VMS which was not Peter Langston's version. >You played against the computer, and the computer player wasn't half bad. >I had the source back when I was running on a >DEC-SYSTEM 10 (those were the days, weird but still interesting). I know the >computer player in the game was made much more intelligent since I got the >source. I now have access to a number of various machines and architectures, >including a DEC PDP-11/70, and I would like to be able to get a copy of that >version of empire. Binaries would be good, but sources would be much better. >Anybody out there know of a way of getting at the program. Is it only >available as distributed for VAXen ? Anybody at DEC know anything about it ? I am quite familiar with the game, since I wrote it. I originally wrote it in Fortran for the PDP-10. Herb Jacobs and Dave Mitton of DEC made some improvements and ported it to the VAX. I have written an assembly language version for the LSI-11, and a C version for the IBM PC. They are being distributed by Northwest Software, 13928 129th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98034 (206) 823-5388. By the way, the sources and binaries of Empire are copyrighted by me, Walter Bright.
sutin@astrovax.UUCP (Brian M. Sutin) (09/23/85)
> I remember playing empire on VAX/VMS which was not Peter Langston's version. > You played against the computer, and the computer player wasn't half bad. I second that. Please post that or send me info if you have any. That program was my altime favorite. Source is a neccesity, though, since I'm on UNIX*. Brian Sutin astrovax!sutin * trademark, uh, uh, ...