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

[Tim Shoppa]

DECUS tapes RSTS-11-13 and RSTS-11-14 (contributed by of course David H
Ahl) contain many 1973 versions of the games that made it into the
original  BASIC Computer Games book.

http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/rsts11/

I've never done a one-to-one mapping of all the games but I don't think
they're an exact map to the ones that appeared in the book.

Interesting note about the history of this entry: the DECtape I read these
from, was obviously assembled from the paper tapes, as several of the games
were exactly reversed (end-to-end) because the paper tape had been sent
through the reader backwards.

Tim.


On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:39 AM Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:46 AM Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I’m curious as to the provenance of
>> the tape. Where’d you find it and do you know when it’s from?
>>
>
> The original (corrupted) Dectape image is at
>
>
> http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/rsts/SeattlePacificCollege/158_ahl_basic_games.dta.gz
>
> Since RSTS (and RSTS/E) natively access files from DECtape in DOS-11
> format only - I found the home block was offset in the image file (If I
> recall it was not on a block boundary).  A snip of these superfluous bytes
> made it readable.  The location of the original file suggests it came from
> Seattle Pacific College.  Someone at bitsavers (Al Kossow) may know more
> about the DECtape's provenance.
>
> Tony
>
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 6:00 PM, 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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