Kyle wrote:
I tried another version from here:
http://www.rickmurphy.net/adventure.htm land it seemed to work just fine,
although for whatever reason, typing DIR results in "No room for output file."
I'm not sure exactly what it means by that; I don't get the same error from
running in simh.
In any event, I can now run Adventure on my 8/M!
I tried the version from the link above on my 8/e. I copied it using the OS8 Disk Server,
from the RK05 image to an actual RK05 and ran it from there.
My machine has 24K (8K core, 16K MOS), 2 M8650 serial interfaces, RK8E, PT8E, and RX8E.
When I run ADVENT, it loads, but then just sits there in an apparent loop. If I type
characters, nothing happens, except if I type CONTROL-C, it does exit back to OS/8.
I've let it sit a few minutes, thinking that maybe it takes a bit to initialize, but
that clearly isn't the case.
I also tried the "R FRTS ADVENT.LD"<ESC> but with this, I get a $ prompt
which appears to be coming from FRTS, and don't know what to do from there. I did try
typing "SYS:ADVENT.LD" at the $ prompt, but it just comes back with another $
prompt.
I do note that the INT BUS in is lit. This means that an interrupt is pending, but the
ION state indicator is off. I have the serial interfaces set up to use interrupts if they
are enabled. To get CHEKMO-II (which uses interrupts for I/O to the console) to run, I
had to add some code to the interrupt service routine to ignore any pending interrupt from
the second serial interface.
Could the interrupt (output ready) from the second serial interface be causing this
problem?
I'd love to get Adventure running on the system.
Thanks,
-Rick Bensene
The Old Calculator Museum
http://oldcalculatormuseum.com