23 Feb
2016
23 Feb
'16
10:47 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Rich Alderson
<RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:
From: Ethan Dicks
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:23 AM
Of course I do.
Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine)
Ethan,
You should know better. Zork originated on a PDP-10 running ITS.
Of course it did.
I first
encountered it on a TOPS-20 system, since the folks at the Dynamic Modeling
Lab ported their variant of Lisp to TENEX and TOPS-20.
I didn't get to play it on 36-bit hardware until you gave me an
account. I've also run it on the klh10/Panda distro.
It's publicly available to play on the Toad-2 at
LCM, and I removed the
office hours check from the startup program years and years and year ago.
I can easily set people up in front of a real tube on a Linux box and
telnet through to the Toad-2.
P.S. There is also a copy of EMPIRE, though I think
there's a problem under
the modern monitor. Probably would work fine on a KS running 4.1.
I'm sure I have EMPIRE for VMS on pretty much any VAX I have ever set
up. I was just reading up that there's a modern re-implementation in
C but it looks extended from the game I remember (satellites, in
particular, I don't recall from 1986).
-ethan