On Saturday 24 March 2007 20:28, Rick Murphy wrote:
In what is the longest time *I* am aware of between
Version 1.0 and
Version 2.0 of a program (1979-2007), I'm happy to announce an updated
version (2.0) of Adventure for your OS/8 system.
(OK, I could have delayed this a couple of years and made it 30 years
between releases..)
Thanks to a list member that supplied me with the DECUS sources and Bob
Supnik's RT-11 Adventure source, as well as a few helpful OS/8 FORTRAN
libraries on the Internet, I've managed to not only recover the program
source, but also make several improvements in the way it works.
Unfortunately, it's still a memory hog that needs 32KW to run.
I'm making source and binary floppies in SIMH-format, a zip file with
all sources, and a web page with the individual source files available.
http://www.rickmurphy.net/adventure.html has pointers to the SIMH
floppy images, sources, etc.
Thanks! It'll make my PDP-8/e (and me) a happy camper...
The first time I played "Adventure" was on a PDP-11/70 in the mid seventies.
IIRC, it took me over 300 hours to complete the first time. I must've been a
slow learner...
Cheers,
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"