[Simh] 101 Basic Games for RSTS/E (was Re: PDP11 on Simh for public access)

[Bryan Davies]

Very many thanks for this Tony.   It should be exactly what I need.

Unfortunately I've downloaded the RL zip and attached it in Simh but RSTS
won't mount it.    It gives an 'Offline or Write Locked? error.   I've also
tried the Writeenable switch but without success.   I'll continue to
investigate but I'm posting here in case anyone else has any suggestions.



On 24 January 2018 at 00:00, Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:37 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.davies at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> I just need to get it all in a nice neat box, connect up he VT100, and
>> download some games and things for the guests to use.
>>
>>
> Bryan (and all).
>
> I first encountered RSTS/E in 1975 on a PDP-11/45 when I was a student
> when I discovered a book "101 Basic Computer Games" with an accompanying
> DECtape.
>
> Recently I tracked down a copy of the book in PDF format and an image of
> the DECtape (that had to be fixed-up so that it was readable) on bitsavers .
>
> The book is at -
>
> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/101_BASIC_Computer_Games_Mar75.pdf
>
> I now have this running on RSTS/E V10.1 and RSTS V06C-03 under SIMH -
> after some minor edits to fix changes to the Basic-Plus source file syntax
> (spaces between keywords etc).
>
> I've zipped-up the fixed DECtape image (DOS format) and an RL01 RSTS level
> 1.2 format disk image (label=GAMES) that you can copy the games from either
> and run them!
>
> The RL01 disk image is easiest (since DECtape support requires some
> fiddling and correct pdp11 unibus 18-bit model selection).
>
> In your SIMH .ini file (assuming you have sysgen'ed some RL type disks)
> you can -
>    set rl enable
>    set rl0 rl01
>    att rl0 rl01-games.dsk
>
> Then once RSTS/E is up as a privileged user just "MOUNT DL0: GAMES" and
> look in DL0:[100,100]
>
> The zip file is https://drive.google.com/file/d/
> 1IgZkafQABxWUXeuEkeq1GjkBe3sF2Zgx/view?usp=sharing
>
> Tony
>
>
>
>
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