DEC and Osborne Infocom Games - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Mar 2012

On 2012-03-06 12.45, Ethan Dicks<ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
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 On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Stefan Skoglund
 <cpuser_stefskog at bredband.net>  wrote:
  >  On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 09:21:09 -0800,healyzh
at aracnet.com  wrote:
>> >>>  In 1983/84, DEC came out with their own versions of the Infocom
games.
>> >>>  ?They were in DEC's 'Digital Classified Software' line
and were for the
>> >>>  Rainbow and the DECMate II (and perhaps other systems). ?They came
in
>> >>>  large
>> >>>  gray sleeves that were different than the usual Infocom packaging.
?Here's
>> >>>  an example:
> >>
> >>  Do you have examples of the games they released for the PDP-11?
 >
 >  Hmm, would they work on P/OS ??  Infocom's releases for the PDP-11 ran on
RT-11.  I know you can run
 RT-11 binaries under RSTS/E, but I can't remember if there was a way
 to do that with RSX-11 (which is what P/OS descends from).  You could
 get RT-11 for the DECprofessional, so the hardware can do it, but I
 only ever used P/OS at the menu level. 
There was this product called RTEM, which allows you to run an RT-11 
environment under RSX. But that might not work under P/OS. Besides, that 
is more complex than the RT-11 runtime system under RSTS/E.

...
   >  ANY
GAMES for DEC Professional series ?  I don't remember for certain, but I
don't think so, at least not
 packaged games that were advertised for the machine.  There were often
 playable games that came as part of various operating systems, and, of
 course, written by users and shared via DECUS and Usenet and such. 
There might have been a few around the time when P/OS was recently 
announced, but I doubt they sold many, and I would very much doubt you'd 
have much luck finding any of those today.
There is atleast a Chess program for the windowing system for P/OS that 
DEC released.

	Johnny