[Simh] Crowther's Adventure game

[Quentin North]

A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL compiler for the Dec 10 I have the source code and files to the original Essex MUD. Unfortunately I think the compiler is lost, but I live in hope. 

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> On 3 Feb 2018, at 15:06, Bob Nelson <rmkrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There are people trying to preserve significant old computer designs and operating systems in a form most likely to survive going forward such as simh.  There are also people trying to preserve significant old programs in a form most likely to survive going forward.  Being in a simh forum it isn't surprising to find more of the first type.  There is room for everyone and it is all good.
> 
>> On Feb 3, 2018, at 5:05 AM, Bob Eager <rde at tavi.co.uk> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500
>> Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few
>>>> others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known
>>>> Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is
>>>> much more readable and maintainable.  
>>> 
>>> To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably
>>> pointless."
>>> 
>>> To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes
>>> a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming
>>> jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)!
>>> 
>>> I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data
>>> structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them.
>>> 
>>> (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html
>> 
>> I agree about the silk purse comment.
>> 
>> I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes.
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