Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cadre.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!bentley!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!idis!cadre!sm From: sm@cadre.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: Re: Empire Source Message-ID: <247@cadre.ARPA> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 22:32:58 EST Article-I.D.: cadre.247 Posted: Wed Feb 6 22:32:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:36:57 EST References: <8018@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: sm@cadre.ARPA (Sean McLinden) Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh. Lines: 30 Summary: < Ignore this line > In article <8018@brl-tgr.ARPA> jais%ucsce.ucscc.UUCP%Berkeley@ucscc.UUCP writes: > Does anyone out there have the source to Empire? I have heard about >it and would like to get it for our game shell here at UCSC. Thanks! > This must be the single most asked question among Unix users. The answer is (insofar as I am aware): The first distributed version of Empire (the game), appeared on a Usenix tape for PDP-11 many years ago. The author was/is Peter Langston. The distribution included a few sources (for parts of the program which had local dependencies), but the meat of the distribution was in binary form. Subsequently there appeared versions for Vax (4.1 and 4.2), as well (and I don't know what else). These are ALL binary only. As far as I know, Peter Langston does not distribute sources. Someone has made a claim to have emulated Empire and had sources but I haven't heard that claim in a while. Peter Langston now works at Lucasfilm, Ltd., which has an unpublished uucp address (or did). I'm sure that someone could give you his mailing address For a copy you must send a blank tape and return postage, plus a description of what Unix version you are running. Sorry I can't help with the address. Good luck. Sean McLinden