Walter Bright's original EMPIRE, *including PDP-10 implementation*, available online!

EMPIRE, Wargame of the Century (tm) index

A shrine dedicated to the original classic Empire wargame by Walter Bright

classicempire.com

Now, this is the game I remember playing. I dunno what language he wrote the original in; it's in a ZIP file I can't download at the moment. But if it's FORTRAN, a really common language back then, it should be easy to translate to something more modern.

TOPS-10 assembler, on the other hand, not so much. And not 100% sure I'd want to play the original any more. 40 years old game? Might be better to let nostalgia lie.

But, EMPIRE!

The author, Walter Bright, wrote a 'C' compiler, Zorland-C, that we used at Symantec (later bought and renamed "Think C"). I met him at some Symantec thing once. Told him how much I loved the game.