On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Rich Alderson <ri...@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.
Of course I do. > Zork originated on a PDP-10 running ITS. Of course it did. > 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. I didn't get to play it on 36-bit hardware until you gave me an account. I've also run it on the klh10/Panda distro. > 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. I can easily set people up in front of a real tube on a Linux box and telnet through to the Toad-2. > P.S. There is also a copy of EMPIRE, though I think there's a problem under > the modern monitor. Probably would work fine on a KS running 4.1. I'm sure I have EMPIRE for VMS on pretty much any VAX I have ever set up. I was just reading up that there's a modern re-implementation in C but it looks extended from the game I remember (satellites, in particular, I don't recall from 1986). -ethan