Some time ago I introduced a new Educational Games membership, which added access to the web apps on this blog site on top of the Free membership. Unfortunately I couldn’t add Educational Games to the Programmer and Recruiter levels at that time, but now I’ve worked out how to make this work. This means that all Programmer and recruiter members will automatically get access to the Educational Games apps via the menu option “Educational Games”. It is also important to remember that, even if you copy the web links, they will only work when accessed from the Educational Games page.
At the same time as the access has been simplified I have added some more games, which are based on the classic console games from the late 20th century:
- Hamurabi allows you to try your hand at governing Ancient Sumaria for a 10‑year term of office. The original Basic program was supplied with DEC System-10 mainframes in the mid-1970’s.
- Blake’s 7 includes a number of references to classic sci-fi series. Y is the Liberator symbol, because the ship had 3 engines arranged in a Y-shape. H is the symbol for the Federation ships, but is probably closer to the shape of the Empire’s TIE fighters from Star Wars. If you try to exceed a speed of 5, then you will get the following warning: “The engines will not stand that!” (Scotty, Star Trek).
