infocom on other systems

[David Griffith]

On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Roger Ivie wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, David Griffith wrote:
> >
> > Yesterday I unearthed some unopened Infocom games which will go on Ebay
> > tomorrow afternoon.  What caught my eye was a blurb indicating that games
> > were available for the DECmate, DEC Rainbow, HP 150 and 110, and TI
> > Professional.  I'm especially interested in the DECmate version.  Does
> > anyone know anything more about these obscure ports of Infocom games?
>
> Not specifically, but bear in mind that the DECmate II with the APU
> was a fine CP/M machine. Since there was a CP/M version of many of the
> Infocom games, it would just be a matter of slapping that onto an RX50.

It's the pdp8-ness that made me take notice.  I have a thing for getting
z-machine interpreters running on weird platforms and right now the pdp8
and pdp11 strike my fancy.  Recently someone ported my pet project, Frotz,
to the iPhone.

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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu

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