EmpireBuilder 1.8 This is an Help tool for Games Mactivity's CD-ROM nr 10 advice: This application did run on a b/w 68030 processor under System 7.1. It was also tested on a big ColorScreen of a PowerMacintosh running The game was also tested on a Quadra with 68040 processor and a 13 inch Color Screen and System 7.1 by Mactivity. 68040 processor. Version 1.7 turned out to be a bit of a disaster, due to one bug (which was in the missile logic, as it turns out) which caused, for at least some users, rather frequent crashes. We apologize for the inconvenience this caused. (The problems with printing the order form which some users also experienced have also been, we hope, resolved.) Version 1.8 contains two major new features, which cause some of the material in the Version 1.7 documentation file to be wrong. a) First of all, the demo release does NOT contain an EB Prefs file. Empire Builder will create this file for you the first time it is run. (Including one with the release was really unnecessary - it merely added to the size of the release.) EB will create this file in your system folder. If you wish, you may move it to the same folder as the EB application file. EB will find it in either place. b) Version 1.8 has an entirely new, optional, dimension to the production side of the game. This made the "rules" of the game very much more extensive, and, consequently, necessitated moving all the logic for editing those rules outside of the program itself. (For the confused reader - Empire Builder allows one to vary the rules under which the game is played quite dramatically via its rule editing functions. This feature has always been completely disabled in our demo releases - which now means we simply are not including the rule editor application with the demo.) For various reasons, we decided to only include only one rule set in the demo release instead of two, as described in the documentation. (Indeed, the entire mechanism for creating, installing, editing, and choosing a rule set has changed completely under V1.8.) The rule set included conforms, in general, the set described as "Chris' EB Rules" in the V1.7 Demo Documentation. c). EB now has the ability to open more than one map window, and includes complete freedom to move and resize the windows at will. One simply uses the New command in the file menu to open a new window once a game has been started, and the Open command to change the current window's characteristics. (To start an entirely new game, one has to exit EB and restart it.) To better illustrate these new features, the full V1.8 documentation addendums are include with the demo release. Of course, many of the features described in that material, especially in relation to rule editing, are either disabled or not included in the demo release. Back to the Computer Games Index