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November 02, 2012 Empire, Living Computer Musuem, and DEC-10 | ||||
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Just a note. The Livinig Computer Museum http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/ has running DECs from PDP-7 to PDP-12. They have several DEC-10s and offer user accounts with login over the internet. I visited last weekend and mentioned the old PDP-10 fortran sources for empire. They are actually trying to build Walter's old empire, but have a newer (still antique though) fortran compiler, so its not there yet. But soon, you may be able to login and run empire on TOPS-10 and real DEC 10 h/w - as it was meant to be played! P.S. If anybody is interested, I updated the D version of empire to uses curses and a recent version of D. I run it on my Mac in a terminal window. Still needs some work with things like help but it will still make you forget to go to sleep. -- dano |
November 20, 2012 Re: Empire, Living Computer Musuem, and DEC-10 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Dan Olson | On 11/2/2012 10:34 AM, Dan Olson wrote:
> Just a note. The Livinig Computer Museum
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> http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
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> has running DECs from PDP-7 to PDP-12. They have several DEC-10s and
> offer user accounts with login over the internet. I visited last
> weekend and mentioned the old PDP-10 fortran sources for empire. They
> are actually trying to build Walter's old empire, but have a newer
> (still antique though) fortran compiler, so its not there yet. But
> soon, you may be able to login and run empire on TOPS-10 and real DEC 10
> h/w - as it was meant to be played!
>
> P.S. If anybody is interested, I updated the D version of empire to uses
> curses and a recent version of D. I run it on my Mac in a terminal
> window. Still needs some work with things like help but it will still
> make you forget to go to sleep.
>
That is pretty cool!
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March 18, 2013 Re: Empire, Living Computer Musuem, and DEC-10 | ||||
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Posted in reply to Walter Bright | Walter,
I have done minor fixs ups to the pdp-10 fortran source code so it will compile and run in a DEC-10 simh. I had to make up some missing subroutines (a missing file perhaps) and learn some PDP-10 macro assembler in the process. The 5 binary map files were missing and expected on a GAM: device, so I generated some from the D empire source code (mapdata.d I think?) and changed the device.
It runs, however I don't have a terminal emulator that works with it. That is the next thing. I will see if I can figure it out term codes being used and get an emulator, or I may drop in alternate cursor routines that will work with ansi/vt-100 stye codes.
Anyway, I want to know if after I get a working version, if I can contribute it back to classic empire, perhaps along with the dsk image that can be used directly with simh? Then anyone can play the original empire. I was also going to let the folks at livingcomputermuseum know so they can add it to their real DEC-10.
. execute @empire
EMPIRE, VERSION 3
COPYRIGHT 1978 BY WALTER BRIGHT
DIRECTIONS ARE ON HLP:EMPIRE.HLP
FOR QUESTIONS OR BUGS SEND MAIL TO [29970,WBG]
PLEASE WAIT 7 DAYS FOR CREATION OF WORLD.(ABOUT A MINUTE OR 2)
YOUR CITY IS AT 1469
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WHAT DO YOU DEMAND THAT THIS CITY PRODUCE? A
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Dan Olson
P.S. I am local in Seattle. We met briefly when you presented at C++ users meeting in Feb.
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