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Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dy
by DonHopkins 2y ago
Hamurabi is a text-based strategy video game of land and resource management. It was first developed under the name King of Sumeria or The Sumer Game by Doug Dyment in 1968 at Digital Equipment Corporation as a computer game for fellow employee Richard Merrill's newly invented FOCAL programming language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi_(video_game)
Ahl, David (November 1978). BASIC Computer Games (2nd ed.). Workman Publishing. pp. 78–79. ISBN 978-0-89480-052-8. (archive)
https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition_1978_Creative_Computing/page/n91/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput...
Hamurabi - (1978) - Apple II - WIN! HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbiqMO0EY4
Long before Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego or The Oregon Trail, there was The Sumerian Game.
https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-video-game-youve-never-heard/ https://www.acriticalhit.com/sumerian-game-most-important-vi...
Game Mechanics That Are Older Than You Think
Our mythbusting run that reveals the true pioneers behind physics, first-person shooting, and light-guns (not Half-Life 2, Doom, and Duck Hunt respectively).
City Simulation - Credited to: SimCity (1989) - Beaten by 24 years
https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.com/features/game-mechanics-older https://web.archive.org/web/20160207152548/http://www.1up.co...
- snvzz 2y agoAn example of interesting comment that unfortunately happens to be very easy to wrongly attribute to a LLM if only given a passing glance.
- DonHopkins 2y agoI typed it in and played it on my Apple ][, from David Ahl's BASIC Computer Games (or maybe an issue of Creative Computing). Also Super Star Trek, too! https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomputer_Edition_1978_Creative_Computing/page/n171/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computer_Games_Microcomput... I couldn't find the original FOCAL version of Hammurabi at first try, but with a little more digging I found an old scan of a partial listing on archive dot org: https://web.archive.org/web/20191013130905/https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/Hamurabi/HamurabiListing.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20191013130905/https://www.cs.br... And a scan of a ditto, Hamurabi Lexington High School Handout 9/9/1969: https://web.archive.org/web/20190307024621/http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/Hamurabi/Articles/Hamurabi-LexingtonHigh.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20190307024621/http://www.cs.bra... From the archive of Jim Storer's FOCAL Lunar Lander web page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190307024621/http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190307024621/http://www.cs.bra...
- layer8 2y agoSecond link actually contains the complete code of Hamurabi. ;)