<div>I came across this great site <a href="http://getlamp.com">getlamp.com</a> ... Some guy is slowly doing a documentary on the whole genesis of the adventure game thing. On his progress blog, he does have this very interesting PDF:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.getlamp.com/pdf/Zork_PDP_11.pdf">http://www.getlamp.com/pdf/Zork_PDP_11.pdf</a></div>
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<div>It's a scan of an autographed manual of the 'first' commercial version of Zork!</div>
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<div>I went digging around, and found that the version of 'zork' included in 4.x BSD was from the RT-11 and was labeled as version V2.0a, with the endgame milestone. After some more digging around, I found this site:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.pdp11.co.uk/2009/05/17/rt-11-rx50-disk-images/">http://www.pdp11.co.uk/2009/05/17/rt-11-rx50-disk-images/</a></div>
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<div>Which has various rx50 disk images. After running strings thru the ASC.DSK image, I think its the V2.1A puzzle room milestone version. dungeon1&2 diskimages contain the fortran source to the game, but I'm unable to figure out how to install the fortran compilers...</div>
<div>I think the ones listed here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx01/">http://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx01/</a></div>
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<div>would do the job as they sound about right when running the FORGEN.SAV program... But I always seem to get this error:</div>
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<div>-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<</div>.RUN DX0:FORGEN.SAV<br>Answer questions with:<br>"?" or carriage return (<CR>) for information,<br>YES(Y) for affirmation, anything else for NO.</div>
<div><br>A maximum of 56 lines are allowed per listing page.<br>Is this acceptable? Y<br>A maximum of 136 characters are allowed in a formatted<br>(ASCII) record. Is this acceptable? Y<br>A maximum of 6 channels may be open at a given time.<br>
Is this acceptable? Y<br>The FORTRAN compiler can compile system-specific OPEN and CLOSE<br>statement keywords for RT-11, RSX-11, and RSTS/E systems. These<br>statements are currently compiled for the following system: RT-11<br>
Is this acceptable? Y<br>FORTRAN can produce inline code for EAE, EIS or FIS hardware,<br>or it can produce threaded (THR) code which is hardware independent.<br>Should the compiler produce EAE code? N<br>Should the compiler produce EIS code? N<br>
Should the compiler produce FIS code? N<br>Should the compiler produce THR code? Y<br>The inline compiler can optimize for SPEED or for SIZE. These<br>optimizations are mutually exclusive. Do you want<br>the optimization to be for SPEED? SIZE<br>
Do you wish a threaded only compiler? Y</div>
<div>?Err 27<br>in routine ".MAIN." line ?<br></div>
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<div>Clearly I'm doing something wrong...</div>
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<div>Anyways, I did come accross this one last version, here:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/5517/pdp11.htm">http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/5517/pdp11.htm</a></div>
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<div>Which is all binary. With some fun with initializing the fortran disk image, and using putr I was able to copy the binaries into the disk image, then copy them into the "rtv4_rk.dsk" from the software packages disk image, and get it to run!</div>
<div>This version reports itself as being the 10-AUG-78 version, or the DECUS 1.1B version.</div>
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<div>.RUN DUNGEO<br>Welcome to Dungeon. This version created 10-AUG-78.<br>You are in an open field west of a big white house with a boarded<br>front door.<br>There is a small mailbox here.<br>>HISTORY<br>
Revision history:</div>
<div>10-AUG-78 DECUS version.<br>14-JUL-78 Bug fixes.<br>6-JUL-78 Multiple system play test version.<br>28-JUN-78 Complete play test version.<br>18-JUN-78 Play test public version.<br>14-JUN-78 Initial public version.<br>
4-MAR-78 Initial version.<br>></div>
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<div>So I was wondering how do you install the fortran compiler in RTS?? Also has anyone run the MDL versions on the main SIMH site under SIMH/ITS? Guides on ITS seem to be vanishing and I wouldnt even know where to start... </div>
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<div>Thanks for your time!</div>
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<div>Jason</div></div></div>