From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: Rich Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix game origins - stories similar to Crowther's Adventure
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 09:22:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fa14f0d9-173f-e354-45a5-10a22a4a0049@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tp030SYUKOYDfT8yqA3jyPckzsy4iQ3iSJdbcc4Ax1qqw@mail.gmail.com>
Rich,
When you mentioned empire and Peter Langston, I was confused, but then
realized there were probably two empires. My dad introduced me to the
other empire (Walter Bright's) way, way back when (Original version was
on PDP-10). It's probably my favorite text game of all time.
The c version vms-empire still builds and runs today (on my mac), these
days it's all fancy ascii, back in the day it was pure text, IIRC:
-------------
Choose a difficulty level where 0 is easy and 99 is hard: 99
Your city is at 1797
EMPIRE, Version 5.00 site Amdahl 1-Apr-1988
Detailed directions are in EMPIRE.DOC
Cannot open saved game: No such file or directory
-------------
++. 16
+O. R
+.. 18
-------------
Bright's touchy cuz folks are always taking credit for work he initially
did - independently of Langston, one must note :), but the story of its
development is interesting, nonetheless:
http://www.classicempire.com/history.html
Will
On 2/1/23 8:41 AM, Rich Salz wrote:
> Peter Langston's empire
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-01 15:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-02-01 2:30 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2023-02-01 2:58 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-02-01 4:50 ` Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-01 5:36 ` Rob Pike
2023-02-01 20:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-02-02 15:35 ` Marc Donner
2023-02-03 2:15 ` Adam Thornton
2023-02-01 6:27 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-01 7:09 ` Jonathan Gray
2023-02-01 14:41 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-01 15:22 ` Will Senn [this message]
2023-02-01 17:34 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-01 17:52 ` Henry Bent
2023-02-01 18:33 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-01 19:09 ` Rich Salz
2023-02-01 19:16 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-01 20:21 Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-01 20:41 ` A. P. Garcia
2023-02-01 20:47 ` ron minnich
2023-02-01 23:31 ` Douglas McIlroy
2023-02-01 23:24 ` Dan Cross
2023-02-02 0:43 Noel Chiappa
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