NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/games/11758

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Path: sparky!uunet!destroyer!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!davewt
From: [e-mail] (David Wright)
Subject: Re: Empire 2.3w - Brand new?
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 17:41:08 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Pete Baker) writes:
>I Beta-Test for Chris Cowan and the C-Net Amiga Version of Empire...The last
>Version that was released to public was 2.0

    The previous person was talking about Amiga Empire, not the Empire game
for C-Net (which is nothing more than an Amiga version of the old C-64 version
of Empire, which was nothing more than a copy of a game known variously as
"Hamurabi", "City", and several other names that I can't remember.
    Amiga Empire is much different, and is a real multi-player games which
is not BBS specific (it can run via Getty, several different BBS's, at
the local console with no BBS or serial ports at all, or as a stand-alone
program that will answer the phone and handle disconnects on it's own).
    There is also a graphic FE available that has color bit-mapped
graphics for the sector types, supports ARexx & uses a mouse, menu, and gadget
interface to let you play either locally (on the machine the Empire server
is running on) or remotely where it also acts like a terminal emulator.

    If the 2.0 version of C-Net is finally stable I will probably
create a client for it. But after working on 8 different versions for each
of the 1.9x releases of C-Net, I am pretty fed up with the C-Net author
and don't really have any plan to work on it right now.



                    Dave