[Simh] Dungeon (Zork) questions......

[Mark Abene]

Not that it answers your final question, but I have dungeon (zork) and
adventure (colossal cave) binaries on both RSTS/E v8 as well as TOPS-20
7.1, in case you were interested.

-Mark


Jason Stevens wrote:
> I came across this great site getlamp.com ... Some guy is slowly doing a
> documentary on the whole genesis of the adventure game thing.  On his
> progress blog, he does have this very interesting PDF:
> 
> http://www.getlamp.com/pdf/Zork_PDP_11.pdf
> 
> It's a scan of an autographed manual of the 'first' commercial version of
> Zork!
> 
> I went digging around, and found that the version of 'zork' included in 4.x
> BSD was from the RT-11 and was labeled as version V2.0a, with the endgame
> milestone.  After some more digging around, I found this site:
> http://www.pdp11.co.uk/2009/05/17/rt-11-rx50-disk-images/
> 
> Which has various rx50 disk images.  After running strings thru the ASC.DSK
> image, I think its the V2.1A puzzle room milestone version.  dungeon1&2
> diskimages contain the fortran source to the game, but I'm unable to figure
> out how to install the fortran compilers...
> I think the ones listed here:
> http://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx01/
> 
> would do the job as they sound about right when running the FORGEN.SAV
> program... But I always seem to get this error:
> 
>  -------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<
> .RUN DX0:FORGEN.SAV
> Answer questions with:
> "?" or carriage return (<CR>) for information,
> YES(Y) for affirmation, anything else for NO.
> 
> A maximum of   56 lines are allowed per listing page.
> Is this acceptable? Y
> A maximum of  136 characters are allowed in a formatted
> (ASCII) record.  Is this acceptable? Y
> A maximum of  6 channels may be open at a given time.
> Is this acceptable? Y
> The FORTRAN compiler can compile system-specific OPEN and CLOSE
> statement keywords for RT-11, RSX-11, and RSTS/E systems.  These
> statements are currently compiled for the following system: RT-11
> Is this acceptable? Y
> FORTRAN can produce inline code for EAE, EIS or FIS hardware,
> or it can produce threaded (THR) code which is hardware independent.
> Should the compiler produce EAE code? N
> Should the compiler produce EIS code? N
> Should the compiler produce FIS code? N
> Should the compiler produce THR code? Y
> The inline compiler can optimize for SPEED or for SIZE. These
> optimizations are mutually exclusive. Do you want
> the optimization to be for SPEED? SIZE
> Do you wish a threaded only compiler? Y
> ?Err 27
> in   routine ".MAIN."  line ?
>  -------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<
> 
> Clearly I'm doing something wrong...
> 
> Anyways, I did come accross this one last version, here:
> http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/5517/pdp11.htm
> 
> Which is all binary.  With some fun with initializing the fortran disk
> image, and using putr I was able to copy the binaries into the disk image,
> then copy them into the "rtv4_rk.dsk" from the software packages disk image,
> and get it to run!
> This version reports itself as being the 10-AUG-78 version, or the DECUS
> 1.1B version.
> 
>  -------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<
> .RUN DUNGEO
> Welcome to Dungeon.                     This version created 10-AUG-78.
> You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
> front door.
> There is a small mailbox here.
>> HISTORY
> Revision history:
> 10-AUG-78       DECUS version.
> 14-JUL-78       Bug fixes.
> 6-JUL-78        Multiple system play test version.
> 28-JUN-78       Complete play test version.
> 18-JUN-78       Play test public version.
> 14-JUN-78       Initial public version.
> 4-MAR-78        Initial version.
>  -------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<
> 
> So I was wondering how do you install the fortran compiler in RTS??  Also
> has anyone run the MDL versions on the main SIMH site under SIMH/ITS?
> Guides on ITS seem to be vanishing and I wouldnt even know where to start...
> 
> 
> Thanks for your time!
> 
> Jason
> 
> 
> 
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