|
The PDP-8/OS-8 version of the classic Adventure Game ("You are in a maze of
twisty little passages, all alike"!) can be run on either
WinEight or the SBC6120 and you can
download an IDE image. This image
contains these files:
 | ADVENT.LD -> compiled FORTRAN binary |
| ADVENT.TX -> travel tables for Adventure (don't peek!!) |
| ADVENT.DC -> instructions for loading Adventure |
 No
source files are available - as far as I know they have been lost. If you have
the source for the PDP-8/OS-8 Adventure, please please please
contact me!
To run ADVENT.LD and create ADVENT.SV, follow the instructions
in ADVENT.DC. There is one error in these instructions - where it
tells you to type
*ADVENT.DA/2
to create the binary travel tables, you really need to type
*ADVENT.DA</2
A small difference, but a critical one!
Here are a couple of other warnings to keep in mind:
| ADVENT (actually, the entire FORTRAN-IV run time system)
won't work with the IOB6120! If you have an IOB6120, you'll
have to remove it before you can run Adventure. Sorry. Jim Kearney is already
aware of this problem. |
| You must have the F4 runtime system, FRTS.SV on SYS: |
| Because of the overlay system, you can only save and run ADVENT.SV
from SYS:. Don't try to put it on any other device! ADVENT.DA,
however, can go anywhere. |
| It's not super fast and the PDP-8 is not exactly a 2GHz CPU, so don't give
up too quickly. Creating ADVENT.DA takes a couple of minutes on the
SBC6120. [With any reasonable PC, it actually runs much
faster on WinEight!] Now, if somebody would just build a FPP8 for the
SBC6120... |
|
Adventure
![[logo: created and managed with Microsoft Front Page 2000]](images/Front_Page.gif){kind=small}