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Here is a brief history of the VMS version of Empire:

Empire was originally written by Walter Bright (me) between 1977
and 1979 at Caltech for a PDP-10. It was written in Fortran.
Since then, Herb Jacobs and Dave Mitton from DEC converted it to
run under VAX VMS and distributed it through DECUS. How it got
to Unix, or even if it is the same game, I don't know since I
have never seen a version of the Unix Empire. If anyone could tell
me this, please send me a mail.

The version that I wrote is a screen oriented game where you controlled
armies, fighters, destroyers, submarines, troop transports, cruisers
and aircraft carriers on a 60 x 100 map consisting of land, sea and cities.
The computer controlled the other side, playing by the same rules
that you did. A typical game might last up to 20 hours, and is a real
CPU hog.

The game and the Fortran version (including 'derivations') are
copyrighted by me. DECUS has acknowledged this and has stopped
distributing the sources (but will still sell you the binaries).
All rights to the game are reserved.

Also, I have rewritten Empire to run on an IBM PC. If you would
like a copy, please send $40 to:

		Northwest Software
		13928 129th Ave NE
		Kirkland, WA 98034