I used the old “f2c” from Bell Labs to create MSDOS and unix binaries of the old Mystery Mansion that ran on HP1000/RTE.
The nice thing was that since I had the source to f2c, I could modify it to handle the slightly irregular syntax of the source code (the only one of which I can remember off hand is that Mystery Mansion had nearly 100 continuation lines which made most compilers choke). From: Simh [mailto:simh-boun...@trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of Clem Cole Sent: Monday, February 29, 2016 8:30 PM To: Bob Supnik <b...@supnik.org> Cc: SIMH <simh@trailing-edge.com> Subject: Re: [Simh] Zork for ITS [was: Klh10 vs Simh] 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." I am under the impression that both Dungeon and Adventure are part of the Intel compiler test suite (as they were for the DEC compilers), so I suspect they will even run on on modern Mac's, Linux and Window's boxes if you set the FTN value in the makefile to point to fort (which you can get a free noncommercial license for if you poke around the Intel websites). FYI: gfortran might work but I can not claim to have tried it, while I have personally run them both with ifort on my Mac to show my kids what computer games once looked like (I'm not sure if they were disgusted or amazed, but I did find when he was 16, my now 20 year, son playing adventure - i.e. it did suck him in - even he had been part of the Wii, Xbox and Nintendo generation. I think he was more impressed that I still had an adventure Map in a file cabinet that was created on computer printer paper. That said, I'm not sure my daughter (a CS professional these days) was as entranced. Clem
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