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The Sumerian Game
- errcorrectcode 5y agoI wonder if Textquake for the 7090 would break .00000001 FPS.
- narwally 5y agoThe Royal Game of Ur?
- danuker 5y agoThat is what I expected also. But no, it is a different game, text-based.
- dang 5y agoWe changed the URL from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sumerian_Game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sumerian_Game to an article with more background. (It has been posted here before but not had much discussion).
- kawera 5y agoThanks Daniel, much better indeed.
- kingcharles 5y agoThanks, that article is a lot more informative.
- salty-horse 5y agoKate Willært does great research. I highly recommend checking out the video essays: https://www.acriticalhit.com/category/video-essays/ https://www.acriticalhit.com/category/video-essays/
- kingcharles 5y agoDigital scans of the slides only available on site, not online. I hate that sort of thing: https://archives.museumofplay.org/repositories/3/archival_objects/20050 https://archives.museumofplay.org/repositories/3/archival_ob...
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- hasmanean 5y agoI played this game on an Apple III! I thought it was called “Hammurabi.”
- Rendello 5y agoApparently Hamurabi was inspired by The Sumerian Game. I played it as a kid too, but in my case it was on my iPod. I had been looking for programming apps and found a BASIC app. Turns out, it was just classic BASIC games and not an interpreter, but it was good fun regardless!
- UncleSlacky 5y agoHamurabi was the first thing I ever played on a computer, a TRS-80 circa 1979-80. The BASIC listing is here (along with all the othe Ahl games): https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=78 https://www.atariarchives.org/basicgames/showpage.php?page=7... There seems to be an emulation here: https://archive.org/details/hamurabi.qb64 https://archive.org/details/hamurabi.qb64
- El_RIDO 5y agoThere is an ongoing effort to port those games from David Ahl's book into modern languages. It includes Hammurabi, if you'd like to experience it on a modern system: https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/main/43_Hammurabi https://github.com/coding-horror/basic-computer-games/tree/m... This was previously discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26188324
- hackerfromthefu 5y agoWas also available on PC in that era!
- animal531 5y agoI can recall the layout of the text, although I can't be certain about the names from so long ago. It was pretty enjoyable for such a basic game. I imagine that it was also the parent of the trader text game where instead of being in a static city you have your ship that you increase in size, travel between cities and trade as well as buy/sell guns for defense.
- chr15p 5y agoAdvent Of Computing podcast (https://adventofcomputing.com/ https://adventofcomputing.com/) did an episode about this which is worth a listen Its episode 57 or is on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLI5AKoyjMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLI5AKoyjMM
- shazeubaa 5y agoI played this game on MECC in 1974.