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- 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>
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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!
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