27 Nov
2013
27 Nov
'13
9:15 a.m.
Hi Ethan,
Yeah, that's exactly the sort of thing I'm looking for.? I have a few early
Infocom titles for DECmate II and Rainbow:
http://yois.if-legends.org/vault.php?id=553
But the holy grail has always been the PDP-11 version of the original mainframe Zork.?
I've seen the scans, and have held an original printed version in my hands when I
visited a German collector years ago, but am looking for an original for myself.? Same
with the map in DEC Professional.
The TRS-80 Personal Software Zork is also fairly rare and sought-after, so congrats on
finding that.
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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 21:59:38 -0500
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Seeking a few game-related DEC PDP-11 items
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>C.E. Forman wrote:
> I collect old computer games and am trying to find the PDP-11 version of
> Zork, complete with the original media, instructions and printed map.? I am
> also looking for the November 1982 issue of DEC Professional, which featured
> a hand-drawn map of the game.
I know what he's after.? I've never personally seen any commercial Infocom
games except for a new copy of "Deadline" hanging on the wall at the
DEC store in downtown Columbus, c. 1984.? You can find downloads of
Interactive Fiction for the PDP-11, but genuine original media and paper
manuals are quite rare.? I did manage to get some version of the Infocom
interpreter hacked to run under RSTS/E for VCFmw last year (the
memory allocation code for RT-11 does not run unmodified under RSTS/E,
you have to add one more system call to make it work), but, again, it's
not an original.
Just the map from the November 1982 DEC Professional has been scanned
and can be easily googled, but the whole paper magazine is somewhat
uncommon, owing to age.
Good luck on your search.? My oldest Infocom goodies are a TRS-80 disk
and Personal Software-published manual.? I've downloaded the scans of
the PDP-11 manual (a copy surfaced a couple of years back), but as I
said, I've never held an original.
-ethan