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Aha! My source code printout pre-dates the one on Decus by several months...<br><br>From my source code:<br><br>EMPIRE, Version 4.0 18-Jan-81<br>Please send bug reports to ELROND::EMPIRE<br><br>I've kept this printout in my possession since that time,<br>gotta love the smell of old line-printer paper :)<br><br>Hrm seems my printout stops after 95 pages, I'll have to see if I still have the rest, hope it hasn't been lost.<br>I really should get this OCR'd in some day soon before the paper degrades.<br><br>Dan.<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div>> From: tshoppa@wmata.com<br>> To: dennis_mailing_lists@conus.info; simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:48:39 -0500<br>> Subject: Re: [Simh] Empire game for VAX/4.xBSD<br>> <br>> A 1981 port of Empire to VMS...<br>> <br>> A URL that still works today with VMS_SHARE packaged sources: http://www.decuslib.com/decus/vax_games/<br>> <br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com [mailto:simh-bounces@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Yurichev<br>> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:22 AM<br>> To: simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> Subject: [Simh] Empire game for VAX/4.xBSD<br>> <br>> Hi.<br>> <br>> I would like to compile and run very old decompiler for VAX/4.xBSD:<br>> http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DecompDecompiler<br>> <br>> Piece of readme file:<br>> <br>> "WHY I WROTE IT:<br>> <br>> 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."<br>> <br>> http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DecompReadMe<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> 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?<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Simh mailing list<br>> Simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Simh mailing list<br>> Simh@trailing-edge.com<br>> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh<br></div> </div></body>
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