8 May
2005
8 May
'05
2:06 p.m.
In message <f4eb766f05050813432f2d277a at mail.gmail.com>
Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
One of the events in the timeline mentions a ZIP (Zork
Implementaton
Program - the game engine) for the DECmate. If anyone has ever seen
an Infocom title for the DECmate, I'd love to play with it. I'd
expect that it was for an optional 8-bit coprocessor board, not for
the primary 12-bit 6100 processor, but I'd like to know for sure.
I'm not sure just how powerful the 6100 is, but I doubt it would be too
difficult to port one of the simpler Z-machine engines from Linux or BSD to
whatever the DECmate runs (VMS?)
Forgive my lack of knowledge of all things DEC.. My collection (if you could
call it that) is predominantly microcomputers...
Later.
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