Re: [Simh] Don Daglow's Dungeon

2012-01-03 Thread Richard
In article <20120104000135.ab47424...@panix5.panix.com>, Rich Alderson writes: > [...] The Fortran translation of that game, known as > Dungeon, was done by "an anonymous engineer at DEC" (reputedly someone we all > know on this mailing list). Wikipedia says it was Bob Supnik :-)

Re: [Simh] Don Daglow's Dungeon

2012-01-03 Thread Rich Alderson
> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:49:09 -0500 > From: Pierre Francesco > NOTE: This is NOT the prototype of Zork; this is an earlier game that bears > the same name. A correction: The other DUNGEON is not "the prototype of Zork". ZORK (also known as MADADV) was originally written in MDL (a Lisp dial

Re: [Simh] Don Daglow's Dungeon (Pierre Francesco)

2012-01-03 Thread Shoppa, Tim
I've searched all the DECUS PDP-10 catalogs and don't find any mention. Of course a lot of non-official stuff got distributed through the tape tree too and I know other Pomona College-credited games (likely Daglow was the author) stick in my memory from those days. In some cases the SIG tapes d