At 10:20 PM 9/1/2008, David Griffith wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Roger Ivie wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, David Griffith wrote:
>
> Yesterday I unearthed some unopened Infocom games which will go
on Ebay
> tomorrow afternoon. What caught my eye was
a blurb indicating
that games
> were available for the DECmate, DEC Rainbow,
HP 150 and 110, and TI
> Professional. I'm especially interested in the DECmate
version. Does
anyone
know anything more about these obscure ports of Infocom games?
Not specifically, but bear in mind that the DECmate II with the APU
was a fine CP/M machine. Since there was a CP/M version of many of the
Infocom games, it would just be a matter of slapping that onto an RX50.
It's the pdp8-ness that made me take notice.
Those games were for the Decmate II *with the CP/M coprocessor*. Not
native PDP-8 code.
I have a thing for getting
z-machine interpreters running on weird platforms and right now the pdp8
and pdp11 strike my fancy. Recently someone ported my pet project, Frotz,
to the iPhone.
Good luck with getting the interpreter running on the PDP-8. I'd say
that it's pretty much impossible.
Getting something as simple as Adventure fit onto the PDP-8 was a lot
more work than I'd like to admit. Anything more complex is out of the
question.
-Rick