bcw (09/07/82)
From: Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University Re: Empire problems Recently I tried to get the VAX version of Empire running on VMS under Eunice, and have some problems. I'm not sure if they are in the latest version of Empire (though some of the people I've talked to who are running the VAX version of Empire claim that they've never seen the problems), or if they are problems in Eunice, or if I haven't brought the system up properly (I've done everything the READ_ME file says to do, but there may be some system-dependent customization necessary to get this beast to run under Eunice which I've missed). The major problem is that the empire command seems to get quite corrupted as it runs. Empfix seems to show an uncorrupted world (at least before the Empire command gets through with it - then things start to go haywire), but even the Empcre command does not do everything quite right. Empcre prints out a summary at the end of the characteristics of the new world, and prints out a number of Water, Land, and Mountain sectors which correctly sums to the size of the world, but in addition it includes many Fortresses, Urban Areas, etc. which don't exist when you take a map. The Empire command will allow at most one "significant" command (like move), but then it will terminate (no message, just back to the % shell prompt) and when you get back on you find that you have used up an incredible amound of login time and/or BTU's. Also the move doesn't seem to take place, and "census" doesn't work. About the only significant command which comes even close to working is the "map" command. In addition, doing a "nation" gives statistics for your country (not the Deity) as if the country *were* the Deity! Has anyone seen anything like this? Is it possibly due to the fact that Eunice does not copy file descriptors the way Unix does, or is it possibly related to the fact that I had to rename a number of files to make them conform to Eunice's idea of VMS names? I'm not much of a wizard on the internals of Empire (is anyone?), but has anyone done this before or have any idea what's going on? (naturally this is not of earth shattering importance...) Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University