Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ames!oliveb!sun!peregrine!falk From: falk%peregrine@Sun.COM (Ed Falk) Newsgroups: net.sources.games Subject: Re: VMS Empire: Clarification Message-ID: <10718@sun.uucp> Date: Sat, 20-Dec-86 22:07:40 EST Article-I.D.: sun.10718 Posted: Sat Dec 20 22:07:40 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 03:40:20 EST References: <1180@ucbcad.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: falk@sun.UUCP (Ed Falk) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 22 >Sorry for the confusion about VMS Empire. The game was originally >written for VMS, but the version I posted has been hacked to work >under 4BSD UNIX for Vaxes. It is a human-vs-computer game released >through DECUS. > Great game. I used to play it all the time on Data General machines. I couldn't get it to work on Suns though. It was very poorly written and had many hardware dependencies. In particular, it would often put a value between 0-255 in an integer*4 and pass it to a subroutine that expected character*1. This means it only works on machines that address bytes within a word from low to high and which pass character variables by single address (i.e. only Dec). There were also problems with curses and I finally gave up. I realize this isn't Ed James' fault, but does anyone have a version that works on a better variety of hardware? -ed falk, sun microsystems terrorist, cryptography, DES, drugs, cipher, secret, decode, NSA, CIA, NRO. (The above is food for the NSA line eater.)