edjames@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Ed James) (12/20/86)
Sorry for the confusion about VMS Empire. The game was originally written for VMS, but the version I posted has been hacked to work under 4BSD UNIX for Vaxes. It is a human-vs-computer game released through DECUS. I call it VMS Empire to distinguish it from PSL Empire. The version I posted is not for VMS. I will post the VMS version as soon as I figure out how to get our VMS machine to spit it's files onto a UNIX box. I hate DecNet. --ed ps: Sorry to post a non-source thing to net.sources. This doesn't mean I am net brain-dead. I just wanted to reach all you folks who read net.source.games and not rec.games.empire. Please don't fill up my mailbox with net.usage docs! :-) Post rebuttals to rec.games.empire, not net.sources.
falk%peregrine@Sun.COM (Ed Falk) (12/21/86)
>Sorry for the confusion about VMS Empire. The game was originally >written for VMS, but the version I posted has been hacked to work >under 4BSD UNIX for Vaxes. It is a human-vs-computer game released >through DECUS. > Great game. I used to play it all the time on Data General machines. I couldn't get it to work on Suns though. It was very poorly written and had many hardware dependencies. In particular, it would often put a value between 0-255 in an integer*4 and pass it to a subroutine that expected character*1. This means it only works on machines that address bytes within a word from low to high and which pass character variables by single address (i.e. only Dec). There were also problems with curses and I finally gave up. I realize this isn't Ed James' fault, but does anyone have a version that works on a better variety of hardware? -ed falk, sun microsystems terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO. (The above is food for the NSA line eater.)