2 Dec
2008
2 Dec
'08
7:38 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Now if someone could just find a disk image of the
software!
Somewhere, I've seen _an_ original RT-11 app, but not Zork I - maybe
Deadline or Starcross. Just the executable, not a disk image. I'd
love to see one of those just to poke around on unallocated sectors.
I've only recently learned how much cool stuff is on ancient Amiga
Kickstart disks (the KS image file only occupies ~256K out of 880K,
leaving plenty of space that wasn't zeroed before mastering).
-ethan
2 Dec
2 Dec
1:40 p.m.
It's funny you should mention that, as someone recently pointed me to this page:
http://www.pagetable.com/?p=34
I haven't read it all yet, and it may be of interest to others here.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
--- On Tue, 2/12/08, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PDP-11 Zork Manual: Save $2,348.31
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Date: Tuesday, 2 December, 2008, 3:38 PM
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I've only recently learned how much cool stuff is on ancient Amiga
Kickstart disks (the KS image file only occupies ~256K out of 880K,
leaving plenty of space that wasn't zeroed before mastering).
-ethan
9:16 p.m.
I recently received a number of Infocom games from the estate of an old
friend from my RT-11 days who recently passed on. I have yet to
inventory them, but the RX01/02 disks for the games along with much of
the original packaging was there...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
(helped Johnny Bilquist with RT-11 modules for ZEMU)
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:20 AM, Zane H. Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
Now if someone could just find a disk image of
the software!
Somewhere, I've seen _an_ original RT-11 app, but not Zork I - maybe
Deadline or Starcross. Just the executable, not a disk image. I'd
love to see one of those just to poke around on unallocated sectors.
I've only recently learned how much cool stuff is on ancient Amiga
Kickstart disks (the KS image file only occupies ~256K out of 880K,
leaving plenty of space that wasn't zeroed before mastering).
-ethan
3 Dec
3 Dec
3:19 p.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
I'd
love to see one of those just to poke around on unallocated sectors.
I've only recently learned how much cool stuff is on ancient Amiga
Kickstart disks (the KS image file only occupies ~256K out of 880K,
leaving plenty of space that wasn't zeroed before mastering).
What goodies were in the leftover space?
Around 1979, I bought a game for the Apple II, and discovered a few
sectors of source code, apparently for the game, but not enough to
be useful.
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