Ran across your home page and saw you were looking for a copy of the Interstel version of Empire.  Still have 5 1/4 and 3 1/4 disks as well as manual but no other packaging if you are still looking.

Just got a new PC running Windows 7 and haven't figured out how to get it (Empire) to run on 64 bit system.  Any suggestions for that would be appreciated.

By the way, the "e-mail Walter Bright" link on your page doesn't seem to work so had to post here.

Cheers

Hi Bill

I ran across your post.  I had a version by Interstel as well.  But the manuel got so beaten up over years of playing and then the computer went belly up and it all got thrown out.

I which this classic version was available for modern PC's or some other gaming system as I loved this original version best.

I've played the several modern versions of civilization but I like the basic game play the best.

Let me know if you get your older version to work!

Cheers

"Bill" <wstritt@aol.com> wrote in message news:im3bhq$p3f$1@digitalmars.com...
> Ran across your home page and saw you were looking for a copy of the
> Interstel version of Empire.  Still
> have 5 1/4 and 3 1/4 disks as well as manual but no other packaging if you
> are still looking.
>
> Just got a new PC running Windows 7 and haven't figured out how to get it
> (Empire) to run on 64 bit
> system.  Any suggestions for that would be appreciated.
>
> By the way, the "e-mail Walter Bright" link on your page doesn't seem to work so had to post here.
>
> Cheers

Have you tried DosBox? http://www.dosbox.com/

I've heard that 64-bit windows can't run 16-bit bit apps (which I assume Empire is), so you'd have to use an emulator like DosBox.

The only way I could get the Interstel version (2.05c) to run on Windows 7 64-bit was to run it in a VMWare virtual machine running windows 2000. Works ok on that, though.

Suggest you run it under an emulator like DOSBox: http://www.dosbox.com/

Rgds/ Cowes

The version of Empire.exe that I have been using is called 5.01 which I believe is derived from Walter Bright's version. I have been using it since late 1980's but starting with Windows 7 (64bit) I have always had to run it in "XP mode" and it has always worked perfectly. If it is legal, I would be happy to email it to anyone who needs it.
It sounds like the exact same program.

On Saturday, 4 February 2012 at 13:26:15 UTC, Ray Cernis wrote:
> The only way I could get the Interstel version (2.05c) to run on Windows 7 64-bit was to run it in a VMWare
> virtual machine running windows 2000. Works ok on that, though.

The version of Empire.exe that I have been using is called 5.01 which I believe is derived from Walter Bright's version. I have been using it since late 1980's but starting with Windows 7 (64bit) I have always had to run it in "XP mode" and it has always worked perfectly. If it is legal, I would be happy to email it to anyone who needs it.
It sounds like the exact same program.
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On Saturday, 19 March 2011 at 22:43:07 UTC, Bill wrote:
> Ran across your home page and saw you were looking for a copy of the Interstel version of Empire.  Still
> have 5 1/4 and 3 1/4 disks as well as manual but no other packaging if you are still looking.
>
> Just got a new PC running Windows 7 and haven't figured out how to get it (Empire) to run on 64 bit
> system.  Any suggestions for that would be appreciated.
>
> By the way, the "e-mail Walter Bright" link on your page doesn't seem to work so had to post here.
>
> Cheers