30 Mar
2010
30 Mar
'10
7:35 a.m.
From: "Ethan Dicks" Monday, March 29, 2010 1:26 PM
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Michael Black wrote:
Then we just have to twist your arm to upload it somewhere :-).
On a not entirely unrelated note to my last
email, does anybody know
where I can obtain the original Focal source code to the game
Hamurabi? I have a pdp-8e that I restored and have running Focal, but
I have been unsuccessful in finding this classic game (apart from
Ahl's Basic version.)
I have it on an original DECUS papertape, IIRC
(http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=cctalk&a=2004-01&m=144185 - yep... there
I am talking about it ;-) You might be after DECUS tape FOCAL8-5 - "The
Sumer Game"
The writeup is:
DECUS NO. FOCAL8-5
The Sumer Game
Doug Dyment, Digital Equipment of Canada, Ltd., Carleton Place, Canada
This is a simulation program/game which will run on a minimal PDP-8
system. The economy of a Sumerian city in the year 3000 B. C. is
simulated in the fashion of a modern-day "business game."
You seem to imply that this *isn't* what you have the tape for?
Has anyone written Doug and asked him? (He's not hard to find online.)
I tried googling for DECUS papertapes online, but did
not find
anything with a casual search. The Wikipedia entry does echo the
credits for the original version to Doug Dyment
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi), but doesn't have a link to
FOCAL code.
Perhaps someone on the list has a tar file full of digitized DECUS
papertapes?
Now that would be something. I've never found any trace of most of
the DECUS stuff for the PDP-8, except the text blurbs like the one
quoted above.
Vince