VAX ADVENTURE, was Re: RL02 problem - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Apr 2006

I don't remember what the problem was, but I had a discussion
with about it back then. Indeed, there was something missing
that Megan would work on ...
I used the RT-11 distribution that comes with SIMH, I still do
in SIMH.  I will give it an other try in a couple of weeks.

I know Zork is difficult to find :-)  but there *must* be
someone out there that has a copy (and is willing to make that
available). I do not need the original disk, a copy or a .zip
file would be great!

- Henk.

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 [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Zane H. Healy
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 Subject: RE: VAX ADVENTURE, was Re: RL02 problem

 At 5:13 PM +0200 4/22/06, Gooijen, Henk wrote:
 I have Planetfall and Leather goddess of Phobos
(IIRC), but they are 
for the ATARI. I once tried Zemu in RT-11 in SIMH :-) but I   missed the 
 correct library to get the OBJs linked. Never
finished it.  
 I'm guessing you were missing the SYSTEM.MLB library?

 Megan did the RT-11 port against RT-11 5.7, and there is a 
 good chance you won't be able to run it on any other version, 
 with the possible exception of 5.6.  I did build an early 
 version of ZEMU on 5.6, but had to do the following:

 Added to ZRT.MAC
 GETAVO::
 	RETURN
 GETCOL::
 	RETURN
 GETSOF::
 	RETURN

 My notes seem to indicate these are some routines that Johnny 
 had added to the version of the source that I had, but hadn't 
 told Megan about at the point that I grabbed the source.  I 
 was unable to build on 5.6 against a later version.

 I couldn't get this to build against 5.4, and at the time 
 didn't have 5.5.  I don't know if I ever found time to try 
 building the V1 or
 V1.5 source.

 I should still have the old version that works on my PDP-11.

   Quite a
rare beast.  If you ever find one, let us know. 
So, list members ... who has a copy of Zork for RT-11, and is willing
to make it available?   :-)  
 Good luck finding a copy of the official release.  I know I 
 don't have a copy, and I don't know anyone who does.

 		Zane

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