<div>Wow, that's kind of funny.... Zork was about the only usefull thing I could think about</div>
<div>doing with CP/M.... I'm sure there are others...</div>
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<div>One day I want to really check out CP/M 68k but getting a real Atari ST is becoming</div>
<div>a chore....</div>
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<div>Anyways, I'm glad I could get you in the right direction.</div>
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<div>PS. I've heard from a friend who heard it from someone else that Bob Supnik (of simh</div>
<div>fame!) was the "somewhat paranoid DEC engineer" engineer that ported zork/adventure </div>
<div>from MDL to FORTRAN... <br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Ethan Dicks <<a href="mailto:ethan.dicks@gmail.com">ethan.dicks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jason Stevens <<a href="mailto:neozeed@gmail.com">neozeed@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I did a small walk thru here:<br>><br>> <a href="http://virtuallyfun.blogspot.com/2007/05/zork-lives-on-altair.html" target="_blank">http://virtuallyfun.blogspot.com/2007/05/zork-lives-on-altair.html</a><br>
<br></div>Strangely enough, that is _exactly_ what I was planning on doing,<br>right down to the same Zork archive on <a href="http://retroarchive.org/" target="_blank">retroarchive.org</a>.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> Just remember to use the altair z80 emulator, and<br>> if you are on a *nix box you'll need to have the files<br>> you want to 'read' into it as upper case.<br><br></div>Yep... RedHat Linux in this case, and you don't have to rename<br>
the files on the UNIX side if you add "L" after the filename...<br><br>I>B:READ <a href="http://zork1.com/" target="_blank">ZORK1.COM</a> L<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>READ V-2.22 (30-Dec-07) SIMH Interface V003<br></div>Read from "<a href="http://zork1.com/" target="_blank">zork1.com</a>" and write to "<a href="http://zork1.com/" target="_blank">ZORK1.COM</a>".<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>> I>b:read <a href="http://zork1.com/" target="_blank">zork1.com</a><br>> READ V-2.22 (30-Dec-07) SIMH Interface V003<br>> Read from "<a href="http://zork1.com/" target="_blank">ZORK1.COM</a>" and write to "<a href="http://zork1.com/" target="_blank">ZORK1.COM</a>".<br>
> PTR: unit is read only<br>> 8.5kB written.<br><br></div>*This* is the tool I was after.<br><br>> You get the idea..<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>>> Have I overlooked something in the simh distribution or on the<br>>> trailing-edge web page?<br><br></div>I think the key in this case is that I was using altcpm.dsk from the<br>swtools area of the simh webpage that doesn't have any sort of<br>
read/write utility (plus I was using the 8080 altair emulator, not<br>knowing it might matter).<br><br>I built altairz80, then grabbed cpm2.zip from your blog entry, and it<br>looks just like what I was after.<br><br>Thanks for the pointer to the more complete software distro!<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>-ethan<br></font></blockquote></div><br>