14 Feb
2015
14 Feb
'15
3:33 a.m.
Hello all,
I'm looking for some good demonstration/fun software to run on my demo
RSX-11/M+ and RSTS/E systems.
I don't much mind what the software is so anything that can be
provided I'll probably find useful. In particular I'm looking for some
games. If it's of any consequence, I'm using RSX-11/M+ 4.6 BL87 and
RSTS/E 10.1-L.
Also, does anyone know if there's any other archives that have copies
of the RSTS/E and RSX-11 layered products than the Trailing Edge FTP?
(Particularly I'm interesting in getting DEC C on RSX-11/M+, but if I
recall correctly the tape image on the aforementioned archive is
corrupted. Also I'm looking for the WPS package for RSTS/E.)
Thank you to any who respond!
Regards,
Christian
--
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
STCKON08DS0
Contact information available upon request.
14 Feb
14 Feb
3:59 a.m.
On Feb 13, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <captainkirk359 at gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello all,
I'm looking for some good demonstration/fun software to run on my demo
RSX-11/M+ and RSTS/E systems.
I don't much mind what the software is so anything that can be
provided I'll probably find useful. In particular I'm looking for some
games. If it's of any consequence, I'm using RSX-11/M+ 4.6 BL87 and
RSTS/E 10.1-L.
Also, does anyone know if there's any other archives that have copies
of the RSTS/E and RSX-11 layered products than the Trailing Edge FTP?
(Particularly I'm interesting in getting DEC C on RSX-11/M+, but if I
recall correctly the tape image on the aforementioned archive is
corrupted. Also I'm looking for the WPS package for RSTS/E.)
Thank you to any who respond!
Sadly that's about all there is. I'd love to see some more RSTS/E layered
products show up (and 10.1A). Isn't there a copy of Whitesmith C for RSX-11
available?
Zane
5:18 a.m.
Found ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp11/rsts/games/README .
But goodness, there used to be zillions of DECUS pdp11 programs around.
Are they all lost?
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove <
captainkirk359 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I'm looking for some good demonstration/fun software to run on my demo
RSX-11/M+ and RSTS/E systems.
I don't much mind what the software is so anything that can be
provided I'll probably find useful. In particular I'm looking for some
games. If it's of any consequence, I'm using RSX-11/M+ 4.6 BL87 and
RSTS/E 10.1-L.
Also, does anyone know if there's any other archives that have copies
of the RSTS/E and RSX-11 layered products than the Trailing Edge FTP?
(Particularly I'm interesting in getting DEC C on RSX-11/M+, but if I
recall correctly the tape image on the aforementioned archive is
corrupted. Also I'm looking for the WPS package for RSTS/E.)
Thank you to any who respond!
Regards,
Christian
--
Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove
STCKON08DS0
Contact information available upon request.
5:31 a.m.
On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:18 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com> wrote:
Found ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp11/rsts/games/README
.
But goodness, there used to be zillions of DECUS pdp11 programs around.
Are they all lost?
It looks like the sunsite archive has changed to ibiblio.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11
Also don't forget that Johnny Billquist just announced a TCP/IP stack for RSX-11M+.
Zane
5:41 a.m.
Hah, thanks, Zane. There's RSX11 PacMan :)
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/rsx/dec…
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Zane Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:18 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
wrote:
Found
ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp11/rsts/games/README .
But goodness, there used to be zillions of DECUS pdp11 programs around.
Are they all lost?
It looks like the sunsite archive has changed to ibiblio.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11
Also don't forget that Johnny Billquist just announced a TCP/IP stack for
RSX-11M+.
Zane
10:23 a.m.
On 2015-02-14 03:33, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
Hello all,
I'm looking for some good demonstration/fun software to run on my demo
RSX-11/M+ and RSTS/E systems.
I don't much mind what the software is so anything that can be
provided I'll probably find useful. In particular I'm looking for some
games. If it's of any consequence, I'm using RSX-11/M+ 4.6 BL87 and
RSTS/E 10.1-L.
Also, does anyone know if there's any other archives that have copies
of the RSTS/E and RSX-11 layered products than the Trailing Edge FTP?
(Particularly I'm interesting in getting DEC C on RSX-11/M+, but if I
recall correctly the tape image on the aforementioned archive is
corrupted. Also I'm looking for the WPS package for RSTS/E.)
Thank you to any who respond!
There are plenty of games around.
I wrote a Z-machine implementation many years ago. ZEMU. You can find it
on ftp://ftp.update.uu.se//pub/pdp11. Then you have lots of games for
that to download. It definitely works on RSX and RT-11, and it might
work on RSTS/E too. Otherwise I gladly take patches. :-)
There is plenty of games and other programs from DECUS. Check out more
parts of the Update ftp site.
A bunch of tapes on trailing-edge are corrupted, sadly enough. The one
that upsets me the most is the BASIC+2 V2.7 tape for RSX. If anyone have
a clue of somewhere else to find one, I'd be most interested. Much else
have been preserved, but I'm hesitant to make anything available at this
time, as we still have the question about the legality of it all.
If someone have a good connection at HP to help solve *that* issue, it
would be even better.
People who are interested in games for RSX might also want to check out
MIM::SYS$GAMES: (if you are on HECnet). If you have an RSX system with
TCP/IP, you might also try ftp://madame.update.uu.se/ with the username
"games".
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
10:36 a.m.
On 2015-02-14 10:23, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2015-02-14 03:33, Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
By the way, other noteworthy RSX games: MTREK, available from DECUS, is
a multiuser StarTrek game.
I also started writing on a clone of CONQUEST. I played a version on VMS
many years ago, and a few years ago I decided to write a clone for RSX.
I came as far as getting spaceships flying, the planet physics working,
all screen handling done and the game daemon running, and you can
communicate between users and so on. But none of the action is there. So
you can't really kill each other, or take over planets yet. Development
is suspended until I have some time and inspiration. I have too many
projects (as usual). But for people who log in to MIM, they can check it
out by typing CNQ.
It's pretty much all written in C, and if someone wants a copy, just let
me know.
I have a version of DUNGEON, which is newer than anything from DECUS for
RSX as well.
And from DECUS, you also have some languages and tools, but that hardly
looks impressive if you want to demo the system. For a quickie, few
things beats RMD though. :-)
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
Hello all,
I'm looking for some good demonstration/fun software to run on my demo
RSX-11/M+ and RSTS/E systems.
I don't much mind what the software is so anything that can be
provided I'll probably find useful. In particular I'm looking for some
games. If it's of any consequence, I'm using RSX-11/M+ 4.6 BL87 and
RSTS/E 10.1-L.
Also, does anyone know if there's any other archives that have copies
of the RSTS/E and RSX-11 layered products than the Trailing Edge FTP?
(Particularly I'm interesting in getting DEC C on RSX-11/M+, but if I
recall correctly the tape image on the aforementioned archive is
corrupted. Also I'm looking for the WPS package for RSTS/E.)
Thank you to any who respond!
There are plenty of games around.
I wrote a Z-machine implementation many years ago. ZEMU. You can find it
on ftp://ftp.update.uu.se//pub/pdp11. Then you have lots of games for
that to download. It definitely works on RSX and RT-11, and it might
work on RSTS/E too. Otherwise I gladly take patches. :-)
There is plenty of games and other programs from DECUS. Check out more
parts of the Update ftp site.
A bunch of tapes on trailing-edge are corrupted, sadly enough. The one
that upsets me the most is the BASIC+2 V2.7 tape for RSX. If anyone have
a clue of somewhere else to find one, I'd be most interested. Much else
have been preserved, but I'm hesitant to make anything available at this
time, as we still have the question about the legality of it all.
If someone have a good connection at HP to help solve *that* issue, it
would be even better.
People who are interested in games for RSX might also want to check out
MIM::SYS$GAMES: (if you are on HECnet). If you have an RSX system with
TCP/IP, you might also try ftp://madame.update.uu.se/ with the username
"games". 
7:14 p.m.
On 2/14/2015 4:36 AM, Johnny Billquist
wrote:
Johnny, what is a ZEMU? And what is
an RMD?
Thank you-
-J.
There are
plenty of games around.
I wrote a Z-machine implementation
many years ago. ZEMU. You can find it
on ftp://ftp.update.uu.se//pub/pdp11.
Then you have lots of games for
that to download. It definitely works
on RSX and RT-11, and it might
work on RSTS/E too. Otherwise I
gladly take patches. :-)
...
...
And from DECUS, you also have some
languages and tools, but that hardly
looks impressive if you want to demo
the system. For a quickie, few things
beats RMD though. :-)
Johnny
8:16 p.m.
On 2015-02-14 19:14, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
On 2/14/2015 4:36 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Johnny, what is a ZEMU? And what is an RMD?
ZEMU is the Z-machine emulator/interpreter/whatever that I wrote for
PDP-11s. The Z-machine is an abstract machine designed for running on
various platforms and was developed by Infocom for their interactive
fiction games. Think ZORK, and so on, and you hopefully knows what that
is. With ZEMU, you can run pretty much all Infocom games on PDP-11
systems. I wrote it for RSX, but with portability in mind. Megan Gentry
did the RT-11 port. It should be pretty easy to get running under RSTS/E
as well, if it don't already work there. (It do require MACRO-11
knowledge however.)
RMD is not an "an", it's a program to display the status of a running
RSX system. Sortof graphic, and very interactive. If you have your RSX
system up and running, just try typing "RMD", and watch. Check "H" for
HELP. ^Z will exit the program. It's one of those tools, once you've
seen it, you will continually be asking yourself why it isn't available
on any other OS.
Johnny
--
Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
|| on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
There are
plenty of games around.
I wrote a Z-machine implementation many years ago. ZEMU. You can find it
on ftp://ftp.update.uu.se//pub/pdp11. Then you have lots of games for
that to download. It definitely works on RSX and RT-11, and it might
work on RSTS/E too. Otherwise I gladly take patches. :-)
...
...
And from DECUS, you also have some languages and tools, but that
hardly looks impressive if you want to demo the system. For a quickie,
few things beats RMD though. :-)
Johnny
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