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From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
To: vejeta@gmail.com
Cc: xconq7@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Family tree of xconq
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:39:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452140A1.9090900@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.451DC351.00003800@softhome.net>

vejeta@softhome.net wrote:

> I wonder if xconq was inspired by conquer in his ideas, or name, or 
> just directly by Empire itself.
> Cheers,
> Juan

Directly by Walter Bright's version - U. Utah had bought a VAX 11/750, 
and it
came preinstalled with VMS, including some games. I got hooked on Empire,
and played it a lot in the month or two before they got around to installing
Unix on the machine. The following year I started thinking about writing 
a clone
of it that ran on Unix, as a break from the rigors of grad school. The X 
interface was
inspired by a snippy remark from a fellow grad student who saw the curses
version and was unimpressed...

Stan

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-02 16:39 UTC|newest]

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2006-09-30  1:07 vejeta
2006-10-02 16:39 ` Stan Shebs [this message]

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