advent sources?

[Dan Gahlinger]

how to login to PDXCAX over the internet? possible?

ALso, which of those files is pascal?

Dan.
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> From: healyzh at aracnet.com
> To: bqt at softjar.se
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:19:16 -0700
> CC: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: advent sources?
> 
>>> Dungeon V3.2 would be nice on RT-11, but realistically your Z-Code
>>> interpreter lets Zork and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy run, what more do
>>> I need for games on RT-11? :^)
>> 
>> :-)
>> But the Inform libraries are soo CPU-intentisive that it's no fun trying 
>> to play ZDUNGEON on a real PDP-11.
>> In comparision, the Fortran version zipps ahead.
>> 
>> But the original Infocom games run really well on a PDP-11 with ZEMU. 
>> Which reminds me that I should make a new release. I have fixed some
>> rather obscure bugs these last few years.
> 
> I only had the last version you released running on SIMH, but the original
> release seemed to be just fine under RT-11.  Maybe it's time you give up on
> RSX, and switch to RT-11! :^)
> 
>>> The DND webpage http://members.tripod.com/~rancourt/default.htm mentions
>>> versions for TOPS-20, RSTS/E, VAX/VMS, and RT-11 (written in Pascal). 
> In
>>> spite of what the webpage states, everything that is there to download
>>> appears to be for VMS.
>>
>> Hmm, trying to understand what it is, still... Multiplayer dungeon game?
>> I guess I could truy to get some version down on MIM, and see if I can
>> whip it into working...
> 
> Log into the guest account on PDXVAX.  I just placed it in [.DND2] under the
> guest account, and verified it works.  It is sort of like Rogue or Nethack.
> I need to figure out what it takes to heal my character. :^)  You can
> apparently have multiple players going through the dungeon, but I don't
> think there is any interaction.  I really don't know anything about it, but
> have been wanting to play.
> 
> While some source code for VMS at least exists, there really isn't any
> details on how to link the files together.
> 
> Zane
> 

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