DUNGEON - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Apr 2006

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

...
   If ZORK were
ever to run on any other machine that machine first and
 foremost would have to have MDL. You know if SDS had that?
 Second, ZORK used a lot of memory. Unless the OS supported virtual
 memory, and a fairly large address space, that would also stop it.
 Appearantly ZORK on the PDP-10 needed over 600K to run (if that is bytes
 or 36-bit words I don't know, but I suspect bytes). 

 FWIW, there exists in the Z-machine spec a setting which indicates on  what
...
  machine the interpreter is running.  Depending on that
setting, the game
 may behave differently.  There was a setting for the PDP-10 (called DECsystem 10).

Yep. Guess what ZEMU identifies itself as? :-)

The only game that I know of that cares are BEYOND ZORK, and it works 
nice if you have a VT220 or newer, download the soft font I designed, 
and then just play on...
If someone have a VT525, they could even test color...

	Johnny

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