14 Feb
2015
14 Feb
'15
11:16 a.m.
On 2015-02-14 19:14, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
On 2/14/2015 4:36 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Johnny, what is a ZEMU? And what is an RMD?
ZEMU is the Z-machine emulator/interpreter/whatever that I wrote for
PDP-11s. The Z-machine is an abstract machine designed for running on
various platforms and was developed by Infocom for their interactive
fiction games. Think ZORK, and so on, and you hopefully knows what that
is. With ZEMU, you can run pretty much all Infocom games on PDP-11
systems. I wrote it for RSX, but with portability in mind. Megan Gentry
did the RT-11 port. It should be pretty easy to get running under RSTS/E
as well, if it don't already work there. (It do require MACRO-11
knowledge however.)
RMD is not an "an", it's a program to display the status of a running
RSX system. Sortof graphic, and very interactive. If you have your RSX
system up and running, just try typing "RMD", and watch. Check "H" for
HELP. ^Z will exit the program. It's one of those tools, once you've
seen it, you will continually be asking yourself why it isn't available
on any other OS.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
There are
plenty of games around.
I wrote a Z-machine implementation many years ago. ZEMU. You can find it
on ftp://ftp.update.uu.se//pub/pdp11. Then you have lots of games for
that to download. It definitely works on RSX and RT-11, and it might
work on RSTS/E too. Otherwise I gladly take patches. :-)
...
...
And from DECUS, you also have some languages and tools, but that
hardly looks impressive if you want to demo the system. For a quickie,
few things beats RMD though. :-)
Johnny