PDP8 and Z-machine engine - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

4 Sep 2006

David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> skrev:

...
  On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Johnny Billquist wrote:

 > > David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
 > >
 > > Frotz???
 > > Why on earth base it on Frotz? Frotz is written in C. You'll  never
get
...
   > anything
meaningful written in C to run on a PDP-8.
 > Something written in Z80 assembly is just about equally meaningless. 
 I mentioned Frotz because it seems to be used as a base for all sorts of
 strange ports.  The Z80 reference was part generalization and part  wishful
...
  thinking. 
You might be right there. :-)

...
  > > No, you'd just have to write it from
scratch. Nothing strange about
 > > that, and doing something about V4 and V5 games isn't that difficult
 > > either. Given a little time I sure could whip one together, but  for now
...
   > I'll
leave the exercise to someone else.
 > I've already written one Z-machine interpreter in MACRO-11. It deals
 > with anything V1 to V8, except for obvious limitations (no sounds, no
 > graphics, no mouse...) 
 Where can I find this MACRO-11 interpreter? 
ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/zemu.tar

	Johnny