Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

Mark J. Blair nf6x at nf6x.net
Tue Feb 23 11:11:18 CST 2016


> On Feb 23, 2016, at 08:37, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Back in the day when I used VAXen and terminals all day, every day, we
> had a variety of exectutable games for VMS (and we never had BASIC on
> that machine).  One of the most popular was EMPIRE (to disambiguate,
> this EMPIRE was a single-player, random world with armies, planes and
> ships where you captured a city, changed its production and took over
> the world - binary only, source never released).

Is the VAX/VMS binary for this game archived anywhere? I'd love to try playing it on my 11/730 sometime!

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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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