Wolfpack Empire

The Empire historical timeline is quite long and filled with a large number of perhaps boring bits of detail. Nevertheless, it is possibly useful and perhaps historically important to maintain an archive of historical dates in Empire history. It is with this in mind that the list below is maintained.

This is a work in progress, and will never be complete, in that history is always being made, even if obscure. The list below is a superset of the timeline shown on the history page.

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Detailed Historical Timeline

1972 1976 1981 1982 1983 1985 1986 1987 1989 1990
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

1970's:

1972-1974: Peter S. Langston writes the first Empire program at Evergreen State College (source). Ben Norton, Chuck Douglas, Mike Rainwater and several others contribute (source - look for "HP Empire", local copy). Peter never released source code to this version.
1976: According to "version" command from 1989, "Empire (c) 1976 by Peter Langston; accept no substitutes!"
1978: "PSL Empire" runs on the PDP 11/70 (source - look for "Old Empire", local copy).
Ken Dowers (University of Oklahoma) ports the code to run on a Vax 11/780 under VMS. Weather existed in this version (source, local copy).

1980's

July 30, 1981: Peter Langston describes Empire as a "mildly consuming simulation game" (source, local copy). This is also the oldest mention of Empire in the groups.google.com archive.
October 10, 1981: Peter Langston intends to convert Empire to a hex based system (source, local copy).
1982: Jim Simons (a.k.a. 1/2 of Escher), a future head of Empire, begins play. This is based on e-mail conversation with Jim: "Well, my first game would have been around 1982 at Purdue... I think I played Little Italy.. built a real nice country, then got rolled by the "late break" exploit. (When you didn't break from your sanctuary, your population would still increase. So you waited until you had 999 civs, broke, recuited them to mil, and started rolling... at that time there were no units, a sector didn't lose mobility when conquerded, and you could immediately convert captured Civs into more mil... so you rolled through the oposition using his own civs...) Games didn't have names back then... Ken started around the same time.. I think he's the one that got me hooked." Jim is also the original author of WinACE, arguably the most successful GUI client for Empire.
January 16, 1982: Peter Langston says that VAX Empire is in the works to run on BSD Unix 4.1 (source, local copy).
July 28, 1982: Oldest power report ever found is posted to newsgroup net.games.emp (source). Game history based on this posting is available on this website.
May 6, 1982: First mention of an Empire robot program (source, local copy).
October, 1982: Steve McClure (a.k.a. Ionica), a future head of Empire begins play. Steve later founded the Wolfpack Empire project and was highly influential in Empire's development for a number of years. From Steve; "I started playing back in 1982, probably around October or so... I played with one of the versions that had weather, and a "plane". ;) No real food, and it had what is basically MOB_ACCESS, where mobility was constantly updating, so you were constantly doing a "census" of every sector waiting for that last little mobility... ;)"
1983: Tom Tedrick, who has made massive contributions to Empire, begins playing Empire, after being introduced to it by Dave Muir Sharnoff (source, local copy).
1985: Jim Reuter writes a decompiler to help him port Peter Langston's game to VMS (source, local copy). Dave Pare starts to reverse-engineer the game. Peter takes pity, and gives him his latest source code (source). Dave's version becomes the original UCSD (University of California at San Diego) Empire.
1986: Dave Pare releases BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution) Empire v1.1, adds planes and many other features to the code.
April 4, 1987: First posting on rec.games.empire that is available at the groups.google.com archive (source). The groups.google.com archive is a very valuable resource that has been used to resurrect a large portion of the forgotten history of Empire.
1987: Walter Bright, author of an early version of Empire, posts a threatening message to rec.games.empire insisting that the name "Empire" not be used (source, local copy). Walter had sold his rights to the game to Interstel, which is no longer in business. A record exists at the U.S. Copyright Office under document number TX-2-225-307 and under TXu-291-724. The latter document shows this version of Empire to have existed as of 1978. This version developed completely independent of the version of Empire discussed here.
1987: Geoff Cashman (a.k.a. Mithrilien), a future head of Empire, begins play. This is based on Geoff's recollections: "I owned an Atari 520 ST at the time. I'd purchased Walter Bright's Empire, and had had a lot of fun with it. I think I went on the net looking for more information and found rec.games.empire. That got me to my first game. I was hooked from the beginning. When I realized the depth of the game, I went to my kitchen, pulled a bunch of food and drink, pulled up my 48 qt. cooler, and spent many, many hours absorbing the game. My first game, I subbed for a country that had bowed out. The game ended a few days after I got into it. My second, I almost got rolled by Brett Reid (Mr. Ed, Resvon) who had to leave the game. Dave Nye (Evil Empire) replaced him, and I managed to come back and defeat Evil Empire."
198?: Jeff Bailey introduces the "Kent State University" (KSU) distribution of the Empire Server. Anti-satellite weapons, and anti-ballistic missiles are introduced. 'bmap', one of the most useful commands ever, is added to the server.
On or about September 30, 1989: BSD Empire v1.1 is released. Dave Pare is lead programmer.
October 14, 1989: According to the "changes" file from UCSD Empire, on this date v0.9.34 of Empire was released.

1990's

July 7, 1990: Oakland University Fall Empire is announced. Deity is Carl Petersen IV.
September 8, 1990: Kent State Fall Empire is announced. Deity is Matt DeLuca.
September 11, 1990: Kent State Fall Empire begins play.
September 14, 1990: Harvard Fall Empire is announced. Deity is Matt DeLuca. This is one of the most influential games of Empire ever, and is still remembered by active players.
September 24, 1990: European Empire is announced. Deity is Frank Kuiper.
October 1, 1990: Harvard Fall Empire begins play.
October 12, 1990: European Empire begins play.
October 14, 1990: Kent State Fall Empire ends. Unity is the winner.
November 21, 1990: Harvard Fall Empire ends. JustUs is the winner.
November 28, 1990: European Empire ends. Vulgarije is the winner.
December 4, 1990: Oakland University Fall Empire ends. Lochett and Tharna are the winners.
December 12, 1990: Kent Surprise Empire ends. Dorsai and Revelstone are winners.
January 31, 1991: Original version of the Empire Hall of Fame is released (source, local copy). Some sources, including Doug Pitters (author of the Empire Hall of Fame) claim it was first released September 12th, 1992. Our source indicates a far earlier date. Doug first asked for nominations for the hall on October 25th, 1990 (source, local copy, entire thread on rec.games.empire).
June 22, 1991: First known Empire FAQ is published to rec.games.empire.
1991?: Merc Empire server is introduced and is used for a portion of a series of "Mercenary Empire" games.
BBN Empire, a short lived version, exists as an descendent of the KSU code, "Merc" code, and the BSD code.
July 1, 1991: Empire Classic begins play. Deity is Matt DeLuca.
July 29, 1991: Euro Empire I is announced. Deity is Pat Loney.
August 5, 1991: Empire Classic ends. Kzin, Lersing, Resvon, Revelstone, and TOG are the winners.
August 6, 1991: Euro Empire I begins play.
August 30, 1991: Euro Empire I ends. Winner is Bulgaria (Atlantis).
1992-1993: Thomas Ruschak adds land units and missions and releases the "Chainsaw" server, based on the BBN code.
January 23, 1992: The highly influential "User's Guide to Empire" is published by Geoff Cashman in three parts (1,2,3) to rec.games.empire. The guide is later included in the Empire infopages.
January 27, 1992: UAlberta I is announced. Deity is Bob Beck.
January 29, 1992: UAlberta I begins play.
March 7, 1992: Coliseum I is announced. Deity is Melissa Merrill.
March 11, 1992: Coliseum I begins play.
May 1, 1992: Coliseum I ends. Temekula is the winner.
May 1, 1992: UAlberta I ends. All countries left alive are declared winners.
July 14, 1992: Euro Empire III is announced. Deity is Pat Loney.
July 17, 1992: UAlberta Invitational was announced before this date. The only game announcement that has been recovered is from this date. Deities are Ken Huisman and Bob Beck.
July 19, 1992: UAlberta Invitational begins play. No end date is known, but it ended sometime before mid-October of this year.
August 6, 1992: Euro Empire III begins play.
October 5, 1992: Euro Empire III ends. No winner was declared.
October 17, 1992: Chainsaw Empire v2.1 is released (source). Tom Ruschak is chief programmer.
October 22, 1992: In 2003, there was a lot of discussion in the Empire community regarding the general strategy of killing newbie/fodder nations first, then trying for the win, sometimes without fighting experienced/strong nations for the win. There was some thought in this discussion that this strategy developed as a consequence of code development in the server. A bit of contrary evidence to this appears as a post on this date, where Owen Reynolds said, "Over almost the last year there has been one single winning strategy -- take over more fodder than anyone else right away, sit tight and make tech, and nuke everyone else." (source). This quote predates a huge number of changes that have been made to the server code.
June 16, 1993: Chainsaw IV is announced. Deity is Del Brubaker.
June 28, 1993: Chainsaw IV begins play.
On or about July 14, 1993: Chainsaw IV ends. No winner declared.
September 10, 1993: Chainsaw V begins play. Deities are Tom Ruschak and Chad Zabel.
November 10, 1993: Riverworld begins play. Deity is Drake Deidrich.
January 11, 1994: Empire materials appear on the world wide web for the first time (source, local copy).
January 25, 1994: Chainsaw V ends. Winners are Sardar, Dolgopa, Sioux, and Deepdelver.
February 1, 1994: Found Empire is announced. Deity is Jim Ortlieb.
February 2, 1994: Found Empire begins play.
April 4, 1994: Found Empire ends. Winners are Rebma, Manifold, and Angband.
May 9, 1994: First edition of the Empire News is published to rec.games.empire.
July 5, 1994: Riverworld ends. Winner is Mirkwood, in his last ever game. Mirkwood retired at the end of this game.
August 24, 1994: Arctic Blast I is announced. Deity is David Fish.
September 13, 1994: Arctic Blast I begins play.
September 23, 1994: UAlberta Nukefest is announced. Deities are Bob Beck and Ken Huisman.
October 11, 1994: UAlberta Nukefest begins play.
November 15, 1994: Dwarven Chowder III: Armegeddon is announced. Deities are Sam Tetherow and Dustin Graham.
November 22, 1994: UAlberta Nukefest ends. No winner was declared.
November 28, 1994: Dwarven Chowder III: Armegeddon begins play.
1995: Ken Stevens rewrites much of the server code and introduces the Empire2 server engine.
January 18, 1995: Dwarven Chowder III: Armegeddon ends. No winner was declared.
February 10, 1995: Dwarven Chowder IV is announced. Deities are Sam Tetherow and Dustin Graham.
February 21, 1995: Dwarven Chowder IV begins play.
February 22, 1995: British Empire II is announced. Deity is Ed Down.
February 24, 1995: British Empire II begins play.
January 9, 1995: Dave Nye founds the Internet Services Provider "Empire.Net" (source), hosting Internet services for the New Hampshire and Massachusetts area. Dave Nye is also known as the leader of Evil Empire, a country of substantial dominance in the late 80s and early 90s. Empire.net becomes the Internet home for Empire until it is sold mid-year 1998.
April 13, 1995: Dwarven Chowder IV ends. Winners are Pudline (Pat Loney(a.k.a. Overload)), and The_Jainists (Todd McDonald (a.k.a. Lothlorien), & LV426)
May 5, 1995: British Empire II ends. Winner is Angels.
June 1, 1995: Arctic Blast II: The Wrath of Blast is announced. Deity is Dave Fish.
June 12, 1995: Arctic Blast II: The Wrath of Blast begins play.
July 17, 1995: Thematic I: The Lost Continent is announced. Deity is Yannick Tremblay.
July 26, 1995: Thematic I: The Lost Continent begins play.
September 26, 1995: Thematic I: The Lost Continent ends. Winners are Barsoom and Cathouse.
September 30, 1995: Arctic Blast II: The Wrath of Blast ends. Winners are Zzang and Blighty.
October 5, 1995: Bayou Blast is announced. Deity is Dave Fish.
October 28, 1995: Bayou Blast begins play.
January 31, 1996: Bayou Blast ends. Winners are RedDog and Gumbo.
August 21, 1996: The founding of the Wolfpack Empire project is officially announced. Empire 4.0 is introduced (source, local copy). The first few years of the Wolfpack project concentrate on clearing up a huge number of bugs and other code deficiencies.
August 28, 1996: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.1 is released.
October 14, 1996: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.2 is released.
November 16, 1996: Bayou Blast III is announced. Deity is David Fish.
November 26, 1996: Bayou Blast III begins play.
December 4, 1996: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.3 is released.
December 9, 1996: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.4 is released.
December 12, 1996: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.5 is released.
January 13, 1997: Bayou Blast III ends. Winners are RedDog, Metaxis, and Luxuria.
January 16, 1997: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.6 is released. A number of new dump commands are added.
February 8, 1997: Renaissance II is announced. Deity is Steve McClure.
February 24, 1997: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.7 is released. GO_RENEW option is added.
February 26, 1997: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.8 is released.
March 17, 1997: Renaissance II begins play.
April 19, 1997: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.9 is released.
April 19, 1997: Renaissance II ends. Winners are Cathouse, Frumple, and Park Place.
April 28, 1997: South Pacific is announced. Deity is Pat Loney.
August 18, 1997: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.10 is released. 'apropos' command is added.
May 12, 1997: South Pacific begins play.
July 12, 1997: South Pacific ends. No winners declared (game died).
October 27, 1997: Twisted Mind I game is announced. Deity is Pat Loney. This is the first in a long series of highly successed Twisted Mind games.
November 4, 1997: Twisted Mind I begins play.
January 19, 1998: Twisted Mind I ends. Ionica is the winner.
February 10, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.11 is released.
February 24, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.12 is released.
March 2, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.13 is released.
April 8, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.14 is released.
April 20, 1998: WinACE v1.0.0 is released (first ever release) (source, local copy). This GUI client becomes the dominant GUI client for Empire.
May 20, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.15 is released.
June 12, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.16 is released.
July, 1998: Sometime in or before this month, Empire.Net is sold. Dave Nye, of Evil Empire fame, had founded this company in early 1995 to be an ISP for New Hampshire and Massachusetts. He donated space to Empire, and Empire's Internet home had been on the Empire.Net servers until this time. Wolfpack Empire, as well as other resources, was forced to move in rapid fashion (source). Outside of a single post in 2000 (source), Dave apparently vanishes from the Empire community. This was a great loss. Based on some cursory research, Dave removed to Santa Monica, where he worked as VP of Engineering for e24/7. However, the company no longer appears to be in operation.
Shortly after closure of Empire.Net: "empire.idlpaper.com" is established by Mark Ballinger and becomes home to all things empire until "empire.cx" becomes the domain in March of 2000.
July 31, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.17 is released.
September 24, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.0.18 is released.
October 1, 1998: Atlantean is announced. Deity is Aaron Dewell.
October 8, 1998: Atlantean begins play.
October 29, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.0 is released. Major release, as most significant things are now run-time configurable, and the server is now licensed under General Public License (GPL). Steve McClure did a huge amoount of legwork to regain contact with Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak, and Ken Stevens to make the GPL licensing be valid. BRIDGETOWERS option added. 'lboard' command added. Plains (~) sector added.
November 3, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.1 is released.
November 22, 1998: Atlantean ends. Winners are Ice Barbarians and Aitychs.
December 27, 1998: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.2 is released. TREATIES option added.
January 13, 1999: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.3 is released. NO_FORT_FIRE option added.
February 2, 1999: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.4 is released.
March 1, 1999: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.5 is released.
June 4, 1999: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.6 is released.
September 12, 1999: Empire Invitational I - Spectre of Communism is announced. Deities are Roman Parparov, Pat Loney, and Steve McClure.
November 7, 1999: Empire Invitational I - Spectre of Communism begins play.
December 3, 1999: War Unlimited is announced. Deity is John Hickman.
December 9, 1999: War Unlimited begins play.

2000's

January 25, 2000: War Unlimited ends. Winners are Savoia, MunchMunch, Pern, and Fish.
January 28, 2000: Empire Invitational I - Spectre of Communism ends. Winner is NATO (Escher, Mithrilien).
March 10, 2000: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.7 is released. The vast majority of work on the Wolfpack Empire server code to this point has been done by Steve McClure. This is the last release of Wolfpack Empire that was done with Steve as the head of Wolfpack and chief coder.
March 14, 2000: South Pacific 2000 is announced. Deity is Pat Loney.
March 20, 2000: South Pacific 2000 begins play.
March 28, 2000: "www.empire.cx" becomes the official domain name of Wolfpack Empire (source). This remains the official domain name until February of 2003.
June 9, 2000: South Pacific 2000 ends. Winners are Escher, Luxuria, and Bikini.
July, 2000: Sometime in or just before this month, John Davies establishes the influential Sycamore series of repeating Empire games. This series of games develops into a new type of Empire game, something between a blitz and a long term game. These games are hosted at Indiana State University (a.ka. "Sycamores", thus the name of the game series).
On or before July 17, 2000: Steve McClure steps down as head of the Wolfpack Empire project. Steve intends to more actively pursue racing cars in his spare time. Jim Simons of Escher fame takes over as Wolfpack head.
July 17, 2000: John Davies, founder and deity of the Sycamore series of repeating Empire games, establishes the Sycamore II game (source).
October 5, 2000: Ice World I is announced. Deity is John Yockey. This is the first in the highly successful Ice World series of games.
October 9, 2000: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.8 is released. This is the first release in the post-McClure era. John Yockey is the chief coder through v4.2.12.
October 27, 2000: Ice World I begins play.
2000: Sometime in the latter half of this year, Hans Petter Jansson embarks on a project to build a new Empire game based on old Amiga based Empire code. There are references to this work, but it has apparently stalled. The game is titled "Evil Empire".
January 7, 2001: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.9 is released.
Janury 9, 2001: Ice World I ends. Winners are MunchMunch (Amber,Ski), Escher, and Icepick (Arrakis)
February 2, 2001: Ice World II is announced. Deity is John Yockey.
February 19, 2001: Ice World II begins play.
March 29, 2001: Mark Ballinger sets up support for the Empire server engine development on sourceforge.net.
April 2, 2001: Ice World II ends. Winners are Dreanor (Ski, Amber), .com (Bungholio), and PaineWebber (UUCP, Parsing).
August 10, 2001: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.10 is released. 'pboard' command added.
August 20, 2001: Ice World III is announced. Deity is John Yockey.
September 7, 2001: Ice World III begins play.
September 20, 2001: John Davies, a.k.a. Mastermind, founder and long time deity of the Sycamore Empire games is badly injured in an automobile accident (source). He later dies (September 26) from complications arising from his injuries.
September 26, 2001: John Davies dies from complications arising from injuries suffered in an automobile accident on September 20 (source).
October 3, 2001: Steve Baker takes over as administrator/deity of the Sycamore series of Empire games (source).
January 9, 2002: Ice World III ends. Winners are Bananaland, beep, Parphos, and Wicked.
January 14, 2002: Lord of the Rings Empire I is announced. Deities are Geoff Cashman and Roman Parparov.
February 5, 2002: Lord of the Rings Empire I begins play.
April 5, 2002: Lord of the Rings Empire I ends. Winners are Rohan, Gondor, Angmar, Umbar, and Mordor.
June 5, 2002: Ogre Empire is announced. Deity is Walter Moore.
July 1, 2002: Ogre Empire begins play.
July 31, 2002: Ogre Empire ends. Winners are Dunbar and Helepolis.
August 15, 2002: Jim Simons (a.k.a. 1/2 of Escher) steps down as head of the Wolfpack Empire project. Geoff Cashman (a.k.a. Mithrilien) takes over as Wolfpack head.
August 15, 2002: Peter Roberts (a.k.a. Byzantium) and Markus Armbruster (a.k.a. Dorwinion) join the Wolfpack Empire project team.
September 1, 2002: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.11 is released. MAC OSX architecture support added. 'sabotage' command added along with commando unit.
September 26, 2002: Ice World IV is announced. Deity is John Yockey.
October 7, 2002: Ice World IV begins play.
January 4, 2003: Ice World IV ends. Winners are Ski, 976-SHEEP, and Zirconia.
February 4, 2003: Ice World V is announced. Deity is John Yockey.
February 5, 2003: "www.wolfpackempire.com" becomes the official domain name of Wolfpack Empire (source).
February 21, 2003: Ice World V begins play.
March 4, 2003: Newbie II is announced. Deity is Lanny Andelin.
March 11, 2003: Newbie II begins play.
April 15, 2003: Ice World V ends. Winners are Lowland (Lowland, Pendor)
and Niflheim (Byzantium, Dorwinion, Plundaria, Mithrilien).
May 6, 2003: Mid-Shipman's Empire is announced. Deity is Mark Ballinger.
May 19, 2003: Wolfpack Empire launches a completely redesigned website for the main site after months of work. Previous Wolfpack Empire website is archived.
May 20, 2003: Newbie II ends. Winners are Pax and Armengar.
May 22, 2003: Mid-Shipman's Empire begins play.
June 5, 2003: Pangaea is announced. The deity for this game wishes to remain anonymous.
June 13, 2003: Pangaea begins play.
July 2, 2003: Mid-Shipman's Empire ends. DexterPV, Thistle, Pax, and Armengar are the winners.
August 1, 2003: Pangaea ends. Cochise is winner.
August 20, 2003: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.12 is released. Most significant change in this release is introducing the concept of an 'update window', a time frame in which the update fires. Reduces ability for countries to fire scripts right before and right after an update to overwhelm their opponents. This is the last release of Wolfpack Empire with John Yockey as principal coder. Intention is for a group of programmers to work on future releases.
August 27, 2003: Lord of the Rings Empire II is announced. Deities are Geoff Cashman, Roman Parparov, and Eric James.
September 8, 2003: Lord of the Rings Empire II begins play.
October 23, 2003: Havok I is announced. Deity is Bob Marchese.
October 28, 2003: Havok I begins play.
December 3, 2003: Havok I ends. SalManilla is the winner.
December 12, 2003: Havok II: Designing Nations is announced. Deity is Bob marchese.
December 19, 2003: Lord of the Rings Empire II ends. Iron_Hills, Mirkwood, Rhun, and Rohan are the winners.
December 26, 2003: Havok II: Designing Nations begins play.
February 13, 2004: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.13 is released. New significant options added ROLLOVER_AVAIL which allows unused 'avail' to accumulate up to 999 per sector, rather than losing it at the update, and units will now auto-fortify at the update, using any mobility past max to auto-fortify themselves. Markus Armbruster is lead programmer on this release, with contributions coming from several people.
February 14, 2004: WinACE v2.4.1 is released by Ron Koenderink (source).
February 17, 2004: Havok II: Designing Nations ends. Dr. Jellyfinger (Bungholio) and Shakespeare are the winners.
February 17, 2004: On this date, the current Wolfpack Empire website exceeds 125 pages.
March 3, 2004: Sam Tetherow steps down from 'active' status in the Wolfpack Empire group, moving to an advisorial role. Sam has been a long time member of Wolfpack, and a major contributor to Empire over the years.
March 22, 2004: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.14 is released. NEWPOWER, NEW_STARVE and NEW_WORK are removed as options, and become part of the default code. GRAB_THINGS is removed entirely. Significant internal reorganization. New make goal Interix (providing better support for Windows platforms). Markus Armbruster is lead programmer on this release, with contributions coming from several people.
May 26, 2004: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.15 is released. ROLLOVER_AVAIL disappears and is replaced by econfig parameter. SHIP_DECAY option disappears. Server software cleanup continues, bringing the code ever closer to modern standards. Markus Armbruster is lead programmer on this release, with contributions coming from several people.
June 6th, 2004: PEI v3.0.1 is released by Roman Parparov (source).
June 17th, 2004: Wolfpack Empire v4.2.16 is released. This is a quick release done to rectify a serious bug in sector production when part of the work is used for sector construction.
June 17th, 2004: WinACE v2.4.12 is released by Ron Koenderink (source).
November 1st, 2004: Petting Zoo III begins play.
January 11th, 2005: Petting Zoo III ends. Partimers (Rook, Wahbit, ?) and FarFarAway (Blackbox) are the winners.