Zork on Apple II, wanted for PDP-11 (was Re: Thrift Store find: Apple IIgs) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Jun 2000

--- Eric Smith &lt;eric(a)brouhaha.com&gt; wrote:
...
   and was able
to boot up the
 only DOS 3.3 disk I could find - Zork I.  
 Minor nitpick:  Zork I doesn't use DOS of any version.  It was originally
 shipped on a bootable 13-sector diskette, and later on 16-sector, which
 is what you have. 
True.  Mea Culpa.  I should have said, "the only Apple II bootable disk I
have is..."

...
  The earliest Zork I release was buggy as all heck. 
Once I managed to have
 in my inventory about 20-30 "rooms". 
On an early version of Zork I for the C-64, I managed to "give me to the
thief".  Later on, in the strange passage, I saw "a cretin" sitting in
the hallway.

...
  In the early-to-mid 1980s, Infocom used to offer a
bunch of their games
 for the PDP-11.  Naturally I didn't get my first -11 until after that.
 If anyone has a copy of Zork (or the other games) for the -11, I'd
 certainly love to get a copy. 
I remember seeing "Planetfall" up on the wall of the Digital Store in
downtown Columbus when I was a kid.  I knew who Digital was, but I
didn't get my first Dec machine until I was 16 (a PDP-8/L that took
two years to restore owing to a lack of docs).

...
  The -11 processor would do a good job of implementing
the Z-machine. 
I agree.  They aren't much different from each other, architecturally.  I've
completely disassembled the C-64 version 1 engine, partially commented it
and gotten it running on VICE with a VIC-20 and a BASIC 3.0 PET!  If I ever
had _way_ too much free time, I could probably craft a working engine for
RT-11.  I used to program that for a living, too, in a former life.

-ethan

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