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[MrAnon]

Strategia_In_Ultima said:
The original is playable as-is, but there are some minor things that could need improving.

I didn't mean to imply SEIV was unplayable in the original form - but we've all seen games that were. Like anything by Derek Smart....:>

[b][i](P.S. Would that be this Empire you're talking about? Would you recommend it?)

Yes, it is! I'd recommend it for a trip down nostalgia lane. The AI is actually pretty good, considering it was nearly 30 years ago (my, how the years have flown!). The endgame becomes a "hunt the last unit" situation but it is a fairly challenging game. It was JOMT material before anyone knew what JOMT was . Getting it to run on a modern box, however, might be problematical. IIRC, the best the graphics ever got were lo-res EGA.

Historical note: I actually bought Empire (on 360k 5 1/4" disks....) becaquse of a review by Jerry Pournelle in Byte magazine...how many readers remember the disks or the mag?

[Captain Kwok]

The original Empire first got me interested in this line of games - except I found it in the late '90s cleaning out someone's garage. They didn't have the manual anymore, so I used to have the guess the "Enter the word" from page X line Y.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I've got games where I don't know where the copy protection is (Well, it's in the computer room, but...)

Anyway, yeah, you can crack those pretty quick just by guessing. (Pretty quick, compared to a whole day. )

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