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

[David Griffith]

On February 23, 2016 10:41:08 AM PST, 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.  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.
One of my ongoing wish projects is to learn to program a pdp-10 so I can port 
Frotz to it.
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