Recent discussion of the 4X game Eclipse reminded me of a responsibility. I’ve just shipped VMS Empire 1.9. This is a close descendent of the original solitaire Empire computer game that was the ur-ancestor of all 4X computer games, including Civilization and Master of Orion.
Great! Downloaded and compiled.
Thanks, Eric.
I see sometimes you point to projects I didn’t even know you had~ do you have a page with _all_ the projects you work on?
Cool…hmmm…I guess it became GPL a long time ago but the one we hacked a long time ago wasn’t as far as I could remember. Although now I can’t remember if it was the Langston empire or the decus one.
@iajrz
I think this is it:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html
Oh my god it actually works (on OS X)!
Thanks for this.
Now to read the manual…
Off topic:
ESR, did you change something with the way the gravatar system works? Whereas before I was seeing (on a long comments page) several hundred resources being blocked by my script-blocking chrome extension I am now seeing none!
I think it may be a bug with the extension though (just updated to a new version) so just wanted to check with you.
>ESR, did you change something with the way the gravatar system works?
No, but I disabled vote buttons and the comment previewing that was overlaying the Submit button. This doubtless removed a lot of Javascript.
Sounds like you might be stepping on an HP trademark there.
>Sounds like you might be stepping on an HP trademark there.
I suppose if an HP lawyer’s breakfast disagreed with him I might get a cease-and-desist, but I’ve been distributing it as “VMS Empire” since at latest 2002 and I think actually 1995, and nobody’s uttered a peep.
@Michael thanks~ now I wonder how come I never noticed that link in the toolbar.
@esr:
In Chrome under Ubuntu, the “Post Comment” button looks a tad off to the right. Haven’t noticed in other platform/browser combos.
Imagine my disappointment when I finally realized that this WASN’T a flashy new game designed especially for my trusty MicroVAX.
There is no question that I took an extra year in grad school because of Empire and Moria. But mostly Empire.