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

[Mark Abene]

My Zork binary is called "DUNGEO.SAV".  It requires two extra files,
"DINDX.DAT" and "DTEXT.DAT".  The game version identifies as follows:

Ready

run games:dungeo
Welcome to Dungeon.                     This version created 28-JUN-78.
You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded
front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>version
V1. 2B
>history
Revision history:

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.
>

Regards,
Mark


Shoppa, Tim wrote:
> At 6:32 PM -0400 10/4/09, Mark Abene wrote:
>> 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
> 
> Out of curiosity Mark, is your Zork binary named "GUE1.SAV"?
> 
> Decades ago I had an 8" Zork distribution disk with  RT-11 image. I did manage
> to figure out that GUE = "Great Underground Empire" but I never had Zork II or III
> for the PDP-11. I guess they would be GUE2.SAV and GUE3.SAV.
> 
> Tim.