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Article #17Re: "Empire" game
From: Tony Shepps
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:44
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:44
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jiodice@telesciences.com (John B Iodice) writes: > Are you familiar with a game called Empire? It's a solitaire game played > against the computer. I've seen versions for the VAX and for MS-DOS. I'm > looking for a copy, and especially for the source. An old roomate who worked > at a computer lab at Temple got a copy there a few years ago. Ring a bell, > Temple folks? > > This is not the interactive game played in the rec.games.empire newsgroup. > It's a one-person game of "take their land away" (a traditional American > pastime!). Don't know where the source is. DO know that Sid Meier's "Civilization", a recently released piece of commercial software, is pretty much "empire" done the way it always should have been done. Having "Civilization", I should think that there'd be no need for source code. It would be hard to improve! -- Tony Shepps toad@cellar.org Preferred address: toad%cellar@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com Snail mail: P.O. Box 655, Blue Bell, PA 19422 Public access and thoughtful conversation: The Cellar BBS +1 215 654 9184
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!dsinc!widener!gvls1!tredysvr!cellar!toad From: toad@cellar.org (Tony Shepps) Newsgroups: phl.misc Subject: Re: "Empire" game Message-ID: <PoXkoB3w164w@cellar.org> Date: 27 Jul 92 16:44:24 GMT References: <1992Jul22.131249.24203@telesciences.com> Sender: bbs@cellar.org (The Cellar BBS) Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system Lines: 22