10 Aug
2010
10 Aug
'10
7:01 p.m.
Well I got "THE LAMP". Now to find the cave... and buy the proper
9 pin null modem cable if they still make them. I can't keep stealing
DE9 connectors are sill made. Multicre cable is still made. Soldering
irons are still made....
[If people are going to flame me for my choice of computers, I feel
justified in postiing messages like that. Making such a cable would be
triival for me, I realsie it's not trivial for everybody, but I will bet
that anyone who really needs one could learn to solder well enough to
make one.]
from the PC here.
I am just finding playing ADVENTURE on the PDP-8 (SBC6120)
with a IDE drive just playable for a text game. Did most of the
people play ADVENTURE on a classic machine or wait for PC version
Depenmds on what you mean by 'classic machine'. I certainly played text
adventures on my TRS-80s M1 and M3 and on VAXen (not my VAXen, though).
There's even one for (IIRC) the HP75 handheld, and that is rather too
slow to be playable. Heck, there seemes to be a text adventure for the
HP41 calcualtor -- maybe that's the one that'd far too slow to be
playable....
or clone of the game. I remember playing a similar
game on the COCO II
but I think it was from Cassette rather than mini-floppy.
I think there were text adventues for virtually all the classic micros...
-tony