2 Sep
2008
2 Sep
'08
10:18 a.m.
From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: infocom on other systems
Remember there is a z-machine interpreter written by
Johnny Billquist that
runs on RSX, it was ported by Megan Gentry to run on RT-11. I believe the
latest updates still run on RT-11, though IIRC a couple years back a
couple of us had to do some testing and work with Johnny to keep it
working on RT-11 due to some changes he'd made.
I would *REALLY* love to see one of the original Infocom copies for the
PDP-11.
Zane
Yup, I also tested ZEMU. The version that Billy has up for download
works with RT-11. After you boot RT-11, first run VBGEXE for some
memory, then start ZEMU. ZEMU asks for a "play file" (IIRC).
I played ZORK (found on the internet) in SIMH PDP-11.
But may I say *ME TOO*!!! I'd love to get a ZORK copy running
straight on the PDP-11. It exists on RX0[1|2] (?) floppy, you
can even see that on on Amazon. But I never read of a person who
actually has it! I'd swap a dozen RX floppies for one floppy
with the PDP-11 version of ZORK on it!
- Henk, PA8PDP