10 Mar
2008
10 Mar
'08
5:16 p.m.
On 10/03/2008 23:41, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 22:52 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
Obviously it doesn't take much. What's the smallest (in physical size
or in relative power) that Hunt The Wumpus has been ported to?
I think the HP41 is well in there...
I think so too. It probably beats the PDP-8 assembly-language version
which a colleague created a year or two back to demo my PDP-8.
By the way, the original wasn't written for Unix, though IIRC a ported
version did appear in the games directory in one or two BSD releases.
The original was written in BASIC in 1972-73, and the late Greg Yob (the
author) wrote a piece about which is in the BASIC Computer Games books.
My BASIC Games page has a machine-readable version at
http://www.dunnington.u-net.com/public/basicgames/
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Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Is that game for Mac/linux? The only reason I say that is because once
downloaded you have to "make" it, which is something we don't do on
windows (to my knowledge, anyway).
IIRC, the original 'Hunt the Wumpus'
game as a standard Unix program.
If anyone is interested I have the BASIC code
listings for (hunting
the) Wumpus 1 & 2 in the book BASIC Computer Games Vol. 2: TRS-80
Edition, from 1980.
I have a version for the HP41 calculator (!) if anyone is
crazy enough to
want it.