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HAMMURABI
In this game you direct the administrator of Sumeria, Hammurabi, how
to manage the city. The city initially has 1,000 acres, 100 people, and
3,000 bushels of grain in storage.
You may buy and sell land with your neighbouring city-states for bushels
of grain - the price will vary between 17 and 26 bushels per acre. You also
must use grain to feed your people and as seed to plant the next year's
crop.
You will quickly find that a certain number of people can only tend a
certain amount of land and that people starve if they are not fed enough.
You also have the unexpected to contend with such as plague, rats destroying
stored grain, and variable harvests.
You will also find that managing just the few resources in this game is
not a trivial job over a period of say ten years. The crisis of population
rears its head very rapidly.
This program was originally written in Focal at DEC: author unknown.
David Ahl converted it to BASIC and added the 10-year performance
accessment. This version was converted into 'C' by Syd L. Bolton of
Legendary Design Technologies, and adapted as a Paragon/Starnet door.
NOTE FOR TRIVIA BUFFS: Somewhere along the line an 'm' was dropped
out of the spelling of Hammurabi in the Ahl version of the program. This
error has spread far and wide until a generation of students who have used
this program now think that Hammurabi is the incorrect spelling. It is
NOT!