On 2016-03-01 02:29, Clem Cole wrote:
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Bob Supnik <b...@supnik.org
<mailto:b...@supnik.org>> wrote:
MDL sources for Dungeon are online here:
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/zork-mdl.zip
/Bob
​Thanks Bob. While its different then trying to get MDL run again, if
you want to be a retro gamer - I believe the Fortran version of Zork
(called Dungeon), plus the the original Fortran Adventure sources are in
the same directory: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/. The Fortran
versions are known to compile and run with the current Intel compiler -
which to quote Rich Grove: "has a bunch of the DEC (Gem) compiler DNA
ground up and injected into it."
You know that Bob is actually the author of DUNGEON, right? :-)
And it was originally done on PDP-11 with (I think) FORTRAN-IV PLUS,
eventually ported over to F77. And I ported the latest version back to
RSX F77 (many years ago now). The only thing I had to fix is that PDP-11
F77 do not have dynamic length strings, so that required a bit of
hacking around, but the rest worked just fine.
Johnny
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