26 Nov
2013
26 Nov
'13
9:59 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfinedp3k at compsys.to> wrote:
I know what he's after. I've never personally seen any commercial Infocom
games except for a new copy of "Deadline" hanging on the wall at the
DEC store in downtown Columbus, c. 1984. You can find downloads of
Interactive Fiction for the PDP-11, but genuine original media and paper
manuals are quite rare. I did manage to get some version of the Infocom
interpreter hacked to run under RSTS/E for VCFmw last year (the
memory allocation code for RT-11 does not run unmodified under RSTS/E,
you have to add one more system call to make it work), but, again, it's
not an original.
Just the map from the November 1982 DEC Professional has been scanned
and can be easily googled, but the whole paper magazine is somewhat
uncommon, owing to age.
Good luck on your search. My oldest Infocom goodies are a TRS-80 disk
and Personal Software-published manual. I've downloaded the scans of
the PDP-11 manual (a copy surfaced a couple of years back), but as I
said, I've never held an original.
-ethan
C.E. Forman
wrote:
Greetings, everyone. Jim Leonard (Trixter) of
oldskool.org referred me to
this list.
I collect old computer games and am trying to find the PDP-11 version of
Zork, complete with the original media, instructions and printed map. I am
also looking for the November 1982 issue of DEC Professional, which featured
a hand-drawn map of the game.
If I am not mistaken, Dungeons and Dragons may have
been a close offshoot of Zork. If so, an executable which
runs under RT-11 is probably available.