2000-04-02 01:00:24 +00:00
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Apparently, this game was originally written outside of Digital,
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probably at a university. The game was ported to DEC's VAX/VMS
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from the TOPS-10/20 FORTRAN sources available around fall 1979.
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Ed James got hold of the sources at Berkeley and converted
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portions of the code to C, mostly to use curses for the screen
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handling. He published his modified sources on the net in
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December 1986. Because this game ran on VMS machines for so
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long, a previous version is known as VMS Empire.
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WWW: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/software.html
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