> The 0 prefix in the lesson name indicates a ¿published lesson¿ ¿ which means$
Ah! Thank you. I knew it had some semantic significance but I didn't really know what. I'm quite sure the version I played was called 0empire and thus would have been such a frozen version. (I wonder if either of the lessons I wrote still exist anywhere....) > As for PLATO simulation, there is one, which John mentions (cyber1). That $ I might be tempted, except that it requires agreeing to California legal jurisdiction, which as someone outside the USA I would have to be completely rocks-for-brains to do - and you say it wouldn't get me access to the code anyway. (Plus, it looks as though getting pterm to build for me would involve quite a lot of wading in with a machete. _Playing_ Empire tempts me, but not nearly enough to override the legal jurisdiction issue.) > That said, the copies of empire on that system (there¿s a 0empire and an emp$ Well, if anyone has enough access to John Daleske to find out what the current status of the code is, and, if it _is_ available, where it's available from, I'd be most interested. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B