<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>The "portable" VAX version incorporates so many VAX Fortran idioms that it will not compile under any standard Fortran compiler today.</div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br><div><br></div><div>Apropos of Zork. Sort of…</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a gfortran Mac OS X of Colossal Cave Adventure I did a while back:</div><div><br><a href="http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/573">http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/573</a></div><div><br></div><div>I've tried the port on Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), but haven't tried it on Snow Leopard (10.6).</div><div><div><br></div></div><div>This port was based on the VAX Fortran implementation from an old Freeware distribution, and uses generic gfortran syntax (and nothing specific to Mac OS X), and should be portable to Linux and other boxes with gfortran.</div><div><div><br></div></div><div>A pointer to Crowther's recovered source code, to a download of the OpenVMS VAX source code (keeping this reply somewhat on-topic for simh) and pictures of Bedquilt cave are here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/470">http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/470</a><br><div><br></div></div></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></span></font><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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