23 Jul
2020
23 Jul
'20
10:50 p.m.
On 7/23/20 9:00 PM, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 11:47 AM Chuck Guzis via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Well, it was darned near 50 years ago, so I can only recall what was on
the DECSystem10 tape, except for very general details. It only took a
couple of days to re-work in CDC FORTRAN and I lost interest quickly. I
do recall that there were a number of DEC FORTRAN "peculiarities" that
had to be ironed out.
I didn't even bother to get it working on the CDC STAR even though I had
access to resources.
I believe that there's even a CP/M-80 version wandering around. I've
got a copy of that somewhere.
The only other "serious" game I recall fooling with was Chess 3.0 to run
under the Zodiac operating system. It used its own peculiar display
driver, CHD, which had to be EDITLIB-ed into the system library, because
it was played on the DD60 operator's console.. A great time-killer if
you've got dedicated block time and are waiting for something to
complete. Even on a 6600, it really sucked up CPU time.
Of course, now I'm speaking gibberish to most of the audience, so I'll
shut up.
--Chuck
Infocom's games were based on Crowther, after
all.
Inspired by, not "based on".
ADVENT was written in Fortran 66. I'm not sure what Crowther used
originally, but Don Woods version was developed on a DECsystem-10 running
TOPS-10.