31 Mar
2023
31 Mar
'23
9:10 p.m.
I received this in a direct reply from a list member:
There are several FORTRAN implementations of the original Adventure game
drifting around.
The original can be found at:
https://jerz.setonhill.edu/intfic/colossal-cave-adventure-source-code/
The Multics port at:
https://gitlab.com/dps8m/Multics_Software/multics_dungn32b
A bunch of others:
https://rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 11:06 PM Tarek Hoteit <tarek(a)infocom.ai> wrote:
Hello Eric. Can you please share the link to the
Fortran 4 copy of
Adventure?
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 08:59:48PM -0500, Eric Moore via cctalk wrote:
Awesome! Thank you! I also received a link to a
fortran 4 copy of
adventure. Now to spend months or years trying to punch, read, compile,
and
run it 😂
On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 8:49 PM Tom Hunter via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> I am pretty sure I have a FORTRAN IV version of it running on CDC
CYBER and
> 6000 series mainframes. I will dig it up
next time I fire up the
emulator.
> Tom
>
> On Fri, 31 Mar 2023, 8:59 pm Eric Moore via cctalk, <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Congrats! I am looking for star trek for fortran 4 if anyone knows
where
> it
> > is.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Eric
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:52 AM Hans-Ulrich Hölscher via cctalk <
> > cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > > The Star Trek simulation game TREK7 was written in FORTRAN by
Donald M.
> > > Ecclestone in the early 70ties for
the PDP-10.
> > >
> > > The game was ported to VAX computers running VMS in 1978 by the
author
> > with
> > > the help of Dan Gahlinger.
> > >
> > > For some years TREK7 fell into a deep slumber until in 1993 Dan
> Gahlinger
> > > decided to revive it, but some severe bugs remained, hindering any
> > > successful round of game.
> > >
> > > Last year I began to work on the problems still present in TREK7.
> > >
> > > After detecting and fixing more than 60 bugs (mostly caused by
> > > transcription errors) step by step, the game is playable again now.
> > >
> > > Dan Gahlinger backed out of the project and I am the maintainer of
> TREK7
> > > now.
> > >
> > > For details see: https://gunkies.org/wiki/TREK7
> > >
> > > Former TREK7 players please give me a shout!
> > >
> > > Ulli
> > > The VAXorcist
> > >
> >
>
--
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit