I remember when the source code for this was published in BYTE magazine. I figured out every line of it, and I thought how it worked was utterly magical. It was a big factor in me going into compilers.
OT: Empire was one of the games that hooked into computing and eventual programming. For such a simple looking game it was to me then what Civilization games are to people today, something I would start playing and look up and see it was morning
