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From: peter@suntan.viewlogic.com (Peter Colby)
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Subject: Re: xconq, xconq, who's got the xconq?
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.133307.2400@viewlogic.com>
Date: 12 Jun 91 13:33:07 GMT
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	Since we are on the subject, I remember my first exposure to Empire
many years ago. We only had object (I believe this was on a Dec 20) and we
were stuck with the same map all the time - couldn't regenerate a new world
for some reason.
	Then after everybody lost interest due to boredom, somebody figured out
how to force regeneration of the world on startup and the game took off again.
	It was some period of time later - when we got a Vax, that somebody
was able to get hold of the (FORTRAN) source (it may have actually been on the
DECUS tapes at one point) and we were able to generate a version that actually
created reasonable maps.
	I had one friend who was looking to leave the company who played our
Vax version of Empire full-time (or close to it) for about 3 months. Talk
about addictive. By the way, he bought StratCon 1.0 when it first came out on
the mac.
	PC
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