[Simh] Empire game for VAX/4.xBSD

[Dan Gahlinger]

I have the actual printout of empire source code for VMS sitting next to me.
I've had it since the late 70's.

I'll need to compare it to this one, maybe see where mine came from.

thanks!

> From: tshoppa at wmata.com
> To: dennis_mailing_lists at conus.info; simh at trailing-edge.com
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:48:39 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Empire game for VAX/4.xBSD
> 
> A 1981 port of Empire to VMS...
> 
> A URL that still works today with VMS_SHARE packaged sources: http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vax_games/
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Yurichev
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:22 AM
> To: simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: [Simh] Empire game for VAX/4.xBSD
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I would like to compile and run very old decompiler for VAX/4.xBSD:
> http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DecompDecompiler
> 
> Piece of readme file:
> 
> "WHY I WROTE IT:
> 
> To decompile Peter Langston's EMPIRE game and other goodies into source form.  This was desired because I wanted to port the games to VMS and to fix some bugs in the games."
> 
> http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DecompReadMe
> 
> So: I installed SIMH(VAX), I tried different versions of BSD (3BSD, 4.0BSD, etc), but, C compiler in each UNIX produces such code that this ancient decompiler working very unstable.
> 
> I try to reproduce all conditions where decompiler's author were at the time and I want to ask, does anybody has Empire game binaries for VAX/4.xBSD dating from the first half of 1980s?
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