[Simh] Zork for ITS [was: Klh10 vs Simh]

[Bob Supnik]

MDL sources for Dungeon are online here: 
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/zork-mdl.zip

/Bob

On 2/29/2016 3:48 PM, simh-request at trailing-edge.com wrote:
> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:48:47 -0500 (EST)
> From: Rich Alderson<simh at alderson.users.panix.com>
> To:simh at trailing-edge.com
> Subject: Re: [Simh] Klh10 vs Simh
> Message-ID:<20160229194847.904F22429E at panix5.panix.com>
>
> <snip>
> Intriguing idea. Hmm. Would that even work?
> There are 2 issues.  First, we only have the MDL environment in its TOPS-20
> form, so system calls would have to be recreated.  Then, the actual ZORK binary
> is an MDL dump file, tied explicitly to the particular version of MDL (v104, as
> it happens) from which it was generated.
>
> Somewhere in my collection of stuff I probably still have a tape of the source
> for MDL v105, and there are archives of the MDL sources for a later version of
> ZORK than the well-known executable.
>
> I'll probably have time to look into it after I retire--in 2021.  Before then
> is questionable.
>
>                                                                  Rich