From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id ffd59f4a for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 10:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 33E709B42B; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:09:04 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66959951BB; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:08:32 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 63E639516C; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:07:32 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 468 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Sat, 04 Jan 2020 20:07:31 AEST Received: from GW.SoftJAR.SE (gw.softjar.se [213.115.73.154]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA0095165 for ; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 20:07:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Trollet.BQTnet.SE (80-219-208-146.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.219.208.146]) by GW.SoftJAR.SE (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8AE1938FCD7; Sat, 4 Jan 2020 10:59:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bqt@softjar.se) To: Adam Thornton , The Eunuchs Hysterical Society , "[PiDP-11]" , "General Discussion: On-Topic Posts" References: From: Johnny Billquist Organization: SoftJAR AB Message-ID: <092a1ce7-8719-8282-0363-f3da62ea02b7@softjar.se> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 10:59:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] [PiDP-11] Some new text adventure stuff for 2.11BSD X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" Interesting. Trinity works fine under ZEMU. So ZIP must be rather a hog... V8 games that I've played under ZEMU: BALLERINA DREAMHOLDER HEROINE VIOLET Johnny On 2020-01-04 06:12, Adam Thornton wrote: > I'm having a party on Saturday January 11 (and if any of you are in > Tucson, or want to come to Tucson for it, you're invited; email me for > the address and time). > > Although the party is Elvis-themed, it's really about boardgaming and > classic videogaming. > > So I kind of wanted to put a general-purpose Z-machine interpreter on my > PiDP-11, so that people could play Infocom (and community) games on a > real terminal. > > Turns out there wasn't really one, so I ported the venerable ZIP (which > I have renamed "zterp" for obvious reasons) to 2.11BSD on the PDP-11, > and I also wrote a little utility I call "tmenu" to take a directory > (and an optional command applying to files in the directory) and make a > numbered menu, so that my guests who are not familiar with Actual Bourne > Shell can play games too. > > These things are at: > > https://github.com/athornton/pdp11-zterp > > and > > https://github.com/athornton/pdp11-tmenu/ > > Both are K&R C, and compile with the 2.11BSD system C compiler. > > My biggest disappointment is that the memory map of Trinity, my favorite > Infocom game, is weird and even though it's only a V5 game, I can't > allocate enough memory to start it.  Other than that, V5 and below seem > to work mostly fine; V8 is in theory supported but no game that I've > tried has little enough low memory that I can malloc() it using C on > 2.11BSD. > > Adam > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "[PiDP-11]" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to pidp-11+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > . > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pidp-11/CAP2nic3C7OW5OKPB_a2n9jOYDA7476MDRjgxKVyW0DkMKf6OsA%40mail.gmail.com > . -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt@softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol