[TUHS] Re: Unix game origins - stories similar to Crowther's Adventure

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: