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I played this game on an Apple III! I thought it was called “Hammurabi.”
by hasmanean 5y ago
I 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.
- seanw444 5y agoOne of the end-of-year projects in my high school C++ class was to implement a simplified version of this, and the project was titled "Hammurabi", so you're not alone.