Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

Glen Slick glen.slick at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 14:04:07 CST 2016


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Rich Alderson
<RichA at livingcomputermuseum.org> wrote:
> From: Ethan Dicks
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 8:23 AM
>
>> Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine)
>
> Ethan,
>
> You should know better.  Zork originated on a PDP-10 running ITS.  I first
> encountered it on a TOPS-20 system, since the folks at the Dynamic Modeling
> Lab ported their variant of Lisp to TENEX and TOPS-20.
>
> It's publicly available to play on the Toad-2 at LCM, and I removed the
> office hours check from the startup program years and years and year ago.
>

Do you have Haunt running there? I'll have to figure out how to get
that running on emulation or real hardware sometime.


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