[Coco] that's just too evil!

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/30/2011 04:15 AM, Willard Goosey wrote:
> The DEC Programming Language manual from 1970 that describes FOCAL has
> the *original* form of the game Hamurabi, later translated to BASIC and
> published by Ahl, the concept of which has lived on in
> resource-management games like Civ.
>
> The original is called "King of Sumeria" and is IMPOSSIBLY harsh!!!!
>
> Each simulated person eats 20 bushels of grain per year or it starves.
> A sim can plant 1 acre of land, which uses 1 bushel of grain.
> An acre of land produces, at best (that I've seen) 5 bushels of grain.
>
> The result?  The population of your city goes:
>
> ----\
>      |
>      |
>      |
>      |
> <phumpht!>
>
> I'll look over the source again, maybe there's still typos, but dam!
>
> BTW sumer.foc will be in the next release of focal09, because, hey,
> sample code!
>
> "Oh look my city has 1 person left, I guess that's me!"
> Willard
Cool.  Now that's worth installing FOCAL for!

JCE