10 Jan
2007
10 Jan
'07
4:24 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 1/10/07, Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>
wrote:
Are there enough specs around that you could write a work-alike?
Peace... Sridhar
Richard wrote:
ADVENT was always FORTRAN (until it was ported to BASIC in the
8-bit-micro era, and C as well for UNIX, then 16-bit micros). When
you say "MDL", you are probably thinking of Dungeon/Zork. The sources
are not lost (there's a copy on Bob Supnik's pages), neither are
compiled versions for at least TOPS-20 (it's on the Panda distro), but
what _is_ lost, AFAIK, is the MDL compiler and environment. So one
can inspect the source (at least one version, anyway), and one can
play the game (two versions for 36-bit that I've personally run), but
not turn source into a playable game. I was thinking of getting ADVENT running on it.
i've searched everywhere for mdl sources but have not not found
any. (but typing that I'm having dejavu all over again. has this topic
come up before?
now that i think about it the tops-20 version was in fortran, right?