[Simh] PDP-11 Dungeon
Bob Supnik
bob at supnik.org
Mon Oct 5 09:42:34 EDT 2009
To answer Rich's question: Dungeon was ported to the PDP-11 first, and
to a PDP-11 without memory management in particular, because that's all
I had access to at the time. The demonstration that Dungeon would fit
in such a small memory footprint led the MIT authors to target the "new"
hobbyist personal computers of the time and to found Infocom.
To answer the other questions: I have no source code or documentation
for the PDP-11 versions. The revision history shows that the PDP-11
version was revised several times from 1978 to 1980:
3,01-Oct-94 Bug fixes (V3.2A).
3,01-Feb-94 Portable VMS/UNIX version (V3.1A).
3,01-Jan-90 Portable version (V3.0A).
3,18-Oct-80 Revised DECUS version (V2.6A).
3,18-Jul-80 Transportable data base file (V2.5A).
3,28-Feb-80 Compressed text file (V2.4A).
3,15-Nov-79 Bug fixes (V2.3A).
3,18-Jan-79 Revised DECUS version (V2.2A).
3,10-Oct-78 Puzzle Room (V2.1A).
3,10-Sep-78 Endgame (V2.0A).
3,10-Aug-78 DECUS version (V1.1B).
3,14-Jun-78 Public version with parser (V1.1A).
3,04-Mar-78 Debugging version (V1.0A).
Then I dropped it until 1990, when I moved it to the VAX.
The "portable" VAX version incorporates so many VAX Fortran idioms that
it will not compile under any standard Fortran compiler today.
/Bob
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