infocom on other systems

[Henk Gooijen]

From: "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: infocom on other systems

> Remember there is a z-machine interpreter written by Johnny Billquist that 
> runs on RSX, it was ported by Megan Gentry to run on RT-11.  I believe the 
> latest updates still run on RT-11, though IIRC a couple years back a 
> couple of us had to do some testing and work with Johnny to keep it 
> working on RT-11 due to some changes he'd made.
>
> I would *REALLY* love to see one of the original Infocom copies for the 
> PDP-11.
>
> Zane

Yup, I also tested ZEMU. The version that Billy has up for download
works with RT-11. After you boot RT-11, first run VBGEXE for some
memory, then start ZEMU. ZEMU asks for a "play file" (IIRC).
I played ZORK (found on the internet) in SIMH PDP-11.

But may I say *ME TOO*!!!  I'd love to get a ZORK copy running
straight on the PDP-11. It exists on RX0[1|2] (?) floppy, you
can even see that on on Amazon. But I never read of a person who
actually has it!  I'd swap a dozen RX floppies for one floppy
with the PDP-11 version of ZORK on it!

- Henk, PA8PDP