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From: bright@dataio.Dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: DEC's empire (game)
Message-ID: <820@dataio.Dataio.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 21-Sep-85 14:50:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 21 14:50:12 1985
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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.


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