Conquest in a nutshell
Conquest is an epic single player space empire game with extremely streamlined text user interface. The game covers it all; population management, technology research, epic space battles, brutal invasions, legendary discovery of new words and great loss.
Some players will find the text UI spartan and confusing, but after a few games you’ll find yourself controlling your fleets eyes closed and hands tied behind your back. Everything you have to do and need to know can be achieved with a few key presses. See the manual for details.
Origins
True origins of Conquest are largely unknown to me. I first encountered Conquest back in mid-90s on Amiga. I learned to love the game but eventually moved on from Amiga and forgot about Conquest for time being. In 2009 I remembered that the sources for Amiga port of Conquest were available. As the original was apparently written for Unices of the time, hacking the code to compile on modern GNU/Linux was easy.
Changes
This re-port (or back-backport) of Conquest fixes some annoyances I experienced in Amiga port of the game. For example, accidentally pressing quit key no longer passes the turn. Although various bugs have been fixed, there’s a bunch still remaining.
Source
You can download the patched sources from here, or get the original sources from Aminet and patch the sources. Patched sources should compile cleanly on modern GNU/Linux.
Sources and the patch(es) here.
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