infocom on other systems

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:45:33PM -0400, Mark G. Thomas wrote: It's a slam-dunk for your Elf-2000. Just slap on the STG disk board and go get Elf/OS for it... http://www.elf-emulation.com/elfos.html Once you have things installed, go get this and assemble the source... http://www.elf-emulation.com/software/elfos/zrun3.tgz I haven't found a V3 Infocom game file yet that wouldn't run with ZRUN3. If you do find a problem, _please_ let me know. Mike Riley did the coding, but I set up problem sets and helped interpret the Z-machine specification for him when there was some ambiguity. I would very much like to hear about it if there is some condition somewhere that we didn't cover. As for your Super-ELF, you'd need to rig it up with 32K of RAM (for ZRUN3, at least), and port the ElfOS BIOS routines to your particular hardware configuration, where it differs from the Elf2K. I have a couple of SuperElf boards myself, bought as-is, that I have yet to complete debugging on (among other problems I _think_ the 74C922s are damaged on both boards and I have yet to secure a replacement chip to verify my probings). Once I get them working, I plan to construct some sort of ElfOS-compatible CF interface and get ElfOS working on them. Since I already have an Elf2K and an EmbeddedElf that work, hacking a disk onto the SuperElf is way down the list of projects, but it _is_ on the list. Here's a free tip when you get your Elf2K assembled... don't forget to either stick a battery in the holder for the NVRAM controller chip, or to remove the NVRAM controller chip and bypass it as described in the manual. Using the chip with no battery can lead to flakey operation. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-333-S Current South Pole Weather at 2-Sep-2008 at 21:50 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -43.4 F (-41.9 C) Windchill -78.7 F (-61.5 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 17.0 kts Grid 31 Barometer 680.7 mb (10602 ft) Ethan.Dicks at usap.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html