CRMS APL Sumerian Game
Play the circa-November 1973 listing, replay the surviving sessions, and read its original ASCII notation alongside Unicode APL.
Entirely in your browser: no account, installation, network connection or server-side interpreter is needed.
Four historical sale-message differences
The typescript reports acres sold as bushels gained, although its grain store is updated correctly. The surviving listing prints the actual proceeds. This version follows that listing without forcing agreement.
Transcript
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Image-checked reading edition; spacing normalized. Unicode rendering retains CRMS runtime names and extensions—it is not standalone modern APL syntax.
About the reconstruction
ngn/apl 0.1.15 evaluates the APL expressions. A browser runner supplies CRMS branching, input/output, and a replacement random stream. Both archived games reproduce all 116 observed numerical state fields with compatible inferred rolls.
Historical behavior is retained, including the missing check for negative planting acreage. Terminal editing, system commands, and byte-exact printer layout are not emulated.
Contato proposes that a University of Calgary APL version preceded Dyment’s FOCAL adaptation and was encountered by Dyment at Calgary; CRMS may descend from that earlier APL lineage. This is a historical hypothesis, not a verified transmission chain.