I have an original printout of Adventure from the mid 70's, taken from a Vax though, It's not a version I've found on the archives, the version ID on mine is different. I've been meaning to scan it and post it.
Ancient fortran is very hard to convert, as I found out trying to convert trek7 (https://trek7.sourceforge.net) And I spent 38 years or so converting "the new castle" from Vax to Linux/Dos/Mac. Dan. ________________________________ From: Simh <[email protected]> on behalf of Quentin North <[email protected]> Sent: February 3, 2018 12:29 PM To: Bob Nelson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Simh] Crowther's Adventure game A bit off topic, but if anyone has a BCPL compiler for the Dec 10 I have the source code and files to the original Essex MUD. Unfortunately I think the compiler is lost, but I live in hope. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Feb 2018, at 15:06, Bob Nelson <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are people trying to preserve significant old computer designs and > operating systems in a form most likely to survive going forward such as > simh. There are also people trying to preserve significant old programs in a > form most likely to survive going forward. Being in a simh forum it isn't > surprising to find more of the first type. There is room for everyone and it > is all good. > >> On Feb 3, 2018, at 5:05 AM, Bob Eager <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:37:25 -0500 >> Phil Budne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> Last year Eric Raymond (The Cathedral And The Bazaar guy) and a few >>>> others took the ugly machine translated C code from the last known >>>> Fortran version and rewrote/structured it into something that is >>>> much more readable and maintainable. >>> >>> To (apparently) quote the new version(*): "Well, that was remarkably >>> pointless." >>> >>> To me, a GREAT part of the magic of the original game is that it makes >>> a silk purse using a sow's ear (and my first two paying programming >>> jobs were using FORTRAN, and then working on a FORTRAN compiler)! >>> >>> I recall thinking the tables (back before we called them data >>> structures) were a thing of beauty when I first saw them. >>> >>> (*) http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-adventure/notes.html >> >> I agree about the silk purse comment. >> >> I have a copy of 'ed' in FORTRAN; it was very useful sometimes. >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh _______________________________________________ Simh mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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