The War Game of the (last) Century
Overview
This is a Mac port of the original and ancient EMPIRE. Those of you who are more than 40 years old may remember this mother of all strategy games. Please refer to the detailed description on playing instructions ( „Empire.pdf“ ).
And also, please don’t blame the quite poor graphics on me; I just ported the original version and added only a few Mac specific extensions.
Version History
This version of EMPIRE requires system version Mac OS X 10.11.
Special credit goes to the author of the original game, Walter Bright: https://classicempire.com
| orig-Version 4.3 | original DEC/VAX-FORTRAN version, developed at Caltech |
| orig-Version 5.04, 1984 | port to IBM/MVS FORTRAN at DESY, Hamburg by Joachim Mnich |
| Version 1.0, 1991 | port to Mac MPW-C by Frank-Peter Poschmann |
| Version 2.0, 2003 | port to Carbon Mac OS X |
| Version 3.0, 2017/2019 | Swift on macOS and iOS |
Disclaimer Agreement and Freeware Notice
Users of this version of EMPIRE must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
This version of EMPIRE is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of this version of EMPIRE.
This implementation of EMPIRE is Freeware. If you like it send me an E-Mail.
Frank-Peter.Poschmann@fpposchmann.de
Download
 | Empire im App Store (iOS) | Latest iOS version of Empire | Version 3.2.5 |
 | Empire in Mac App Store | Latest Mac version of Empire | Version 3.2.5 |
 | Empire | Carbon port of Empire | Version 2.0-e |
| Empire OS9-PPC | Pre-OS X version of Empire, PowerPC | Version 1.0-e |
| Empire OS9-68k | Pre-OS X version of Empire, 68k | Version 1.0-e |