I would like the dos version please, I have a dos screen reader setup
on this system and would like to give it a whirl.
Thanks.
At 11:32 AM 11/13/2016, you wrote:
Empire is a console game, (it's all text based), and it generally
comes in source form (or dos executables). I've successfully
compiled it on mac, linux, FreeBSD, dos, and even my raspberry
pi. I'm sure there are windows executables somewhere, but I don't
know where any are off the top of my head. I'll either find a
download for you, or compile something, and post it for you, because
it is truly a fun game, albeit a bit tough at times due to the way
screen review works), but it's still a whole lot of fun to play.
On 11/10/2016 1:20 AM, Stephen wrote:
Yikes. Where can I get empire? that's a game I haven't heard of
before. Is it for dos or windows console?
At 02:27 AM 11/10/2016, you wrote:
Wow, I've been playing nethack for years and years, and didn't
know about the underscore key. Heh. I've never won a game
either, but I had much better luck playing nethack on dos than any
other operating system, because of the way cursor tracking and
movement is done. I can still play it on linux/bsd/osx, but it's
much more of a pain, since (as far as I know) it's not possible to
move up/down in those screen readers and stay at the same columnof
the screen. Empire is another game similar to nethack in it's
movement, that uses symbols to show various game pieces and
terrain features, and although I have managed to win that one here
and there, it's made harder by the need to determine capital vs.
lower case characters, which in itself isn't difficult, but after
a while, you assume you know the screen layout, and then the
computer sneaks in under your nose, because you didn't check that
troop transport, and later discover it belonged to the computer
instead of to you. :)
I've actually considered making an audio game out of empire, it
might be difficult to manage, but I think if it were done, it
would make tracking enemy pieces much easier.
On 11/4/2016 7:34 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote:
rogue; hack, and nethack are a family of top view video games
written for computers during the 1980's and 1990's and updated
since then. In nethack, the underscore key command is useful
since on any level where you have identified a location like an
altar stairs or fountain you can use the underscore or underline
key command to return to those locations by keying in the symbol
to move to once the underscore key is hit. If monsters are
blocking you, you'll have to fight those then repeat the
underscore command from your new position to get to the original
desired location. I've been playing nethack since the 1990's and
haven't won any of those games yet so it is not a trivial game.
What usually kills me off is mass attacks anymore. I can usually
get to experience level 7 before that happens these days though
and the experience level is improving at least. Experience
levels in nethack run from 0 to 30. Level 1 requires 16 monsters
to be killed and each level after that doubles the amount of
monsters to be killed. I found nethack accessible on dos
computers and on unix/linux boxes playing within terminals since
I learned how to interpret the symbols andI have the ascii
symbols enabled when I play since the tiles don't do a thing for
the screen readers I use. Since I retired, I abandoned windows
since I found I couldn't do a bare metal install of it and I
found it to be too unstable for my uses when I was working.
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