>Ethan Dicks wrote:
I've been meaning to ask this question since I started cleaning up
terminals this year... what are some favorites? Some of the obvious
classics are:
Adventure
Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine)
Scott Adams Adventures
Wumpus
Anything in Dave Ahl's "101 BASIC Computing Games"
Empire
Star Trek
rogue/hack
Larn/Ularn
But what are some other favorites? I've been running a monthly
"retrogaming night" at our Makerspace and so far have brought out a
C-64, a PPC Mac, and an 8032 PET. I'm looking to add a PDP-8 (via
Oscar Vermuelen's PiDP-8, for portability) and (at first) a simh RT-11
box and/or VAX running VMS, though I have plenty of real DEC gear -
it's a matter of transport and storage space). I have a VT220 and an
IBM 3101 (very VT52-like with a working terminfo entry) already on
site and can add additional terminals if this becomes popular (I may
drag in a VT52 just for the excuse to clean one up).
I have the Commodore end pretty well covered. I'm looking for
suggestions for 80x24 text games that can be played on an ANSI (VT100)
terminal and especially non-ANSI (VT52 or that IBM 3101) on
Unix/Linux, VMS, and RT-11. So in general, anything that uses curses
or direct ANSI sequences or just spews text to a glass tty.
The only game I ever played consistently was the RT-11 SST (Super Start
Trek)
version of Star Trek which is still available at:
http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp11/rt11/games/
Jerome Fine
