[Simh] Folks who have old DECUS tapes... look for something for me?

[Johnny Billquist]

I forgot to mention: it's definitely worth diving down into 
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/ as well...

   Johnny

On 2019-12-29 14:05, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I have most, if not all, RSX symposium tapes.
> I think I have a few RT-11 tapes as well.
> 
> But I got some of them from Tim Shoppa a long time ago. And he has them 
> on trailing-edge as well. There you'll find both the RSX and RT-11 tapes 
> as well as a bunch of PDP-10 stuff.
> 
>    Johnny
> 
> On 2019-12-29 05:49, Michael Kerpan wrote:
>> Good luck. I've been looking for old DECUS tapes as well. At least 
>> some of them used to be online, but they've disappeared over the last 
>> 5-10 years. An interesting project would to get tape images, sort 
>> through them and create an emulator-friendly "best of" tape with 
>> various games and programs that would be fun and interesting for a new 
>> user setting up a virtual PDP-11 for the first time.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 11:05 PM Dave Shevett <shevett at pobox.com 
>> <mailto:shevett at pobox.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I saw a couple posts about people who had access to old DECUS
>>     archives.  This is a long shot, but I might as well ask.
>>
>>     When I was a wee undergrad at RIT, I sucked as a student, but I loved
>>     coding games.  I wrote a couple games that ran under VMS - they were
>>     all in BASIC (whichever variant of BASIC was active on VMS in 1982),
>>     but used the ReGIS graphics library for doing games on the terminals.
>>
>>     One was called Labyrinth, and I'm pretty sure it outlasted my tenure
>>     there.  A dungeon crawling game.
>>
>>     The other might have just been called Trek.  Used a custom font 
>> loaded
>>     into the ReGIS graphics lib and had little starships and stuff in it.
>>     IT was a rewrite of one of the old Creative Computing games.
>>
>>     I don't suppose ya'll have seen either of these around, and if so, 
>> can
>>     send me the source code?  That would be a major goal of mine to get
>>     those running again.
>>
>>       -d
>>
>>     --     Dave Shevett
>>     shevett at pobox.com <mailto:shevett at pobox.com>
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