23 Feb
2016
23 Feb
'16
8:37 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, william degnan <billdegnan at gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
Back in the day when I used VAXen and terminals all day, every day, we
had a variety of exectutable games for VMS (and we never had BASIC on
that machine). One of the most popular was EMPIRE (to disambiguate,
this EMPIRE was a single-player, random world with armies, planes and
ships where you captured a city, changed its production and took over
the world - binary only, source never released). I also ported a
number of UNIX games acquired from comp.sources.games and
comp.games.unix to VMS with a VMS curses library and a C compiler
(Whitesmith's C, which we used for our own development, and later,
VAX-C) including rogue and Larn. I had the Infotaskforce "pinfocom"
Z-machine when it was _the_ 3rd-party Z-machine. In the FORTRAN
realm, there's ADVENT and DUNGEON (Bob Supnik's port of Zork) and I'm
sure plenty more. These I have on old backup images (and probably on
the 8300 in the basement). I'm looking for stuff I might not have
known of 25-30 years ago.
-ethan
... 80x24 text games that can be played on an
ANSI (VT100)
terminal and especially non-ANSI (VT52 or that IBM 3101) on
Unix/Linux, VMS, and RT-11.
I never checked, I did not know there were VAX games that you could
download/compile and run locally. One of my VAXen has BASIC installed, but
most are mostly file servers. I'd like to learn more myself.