8 May
2015
8 May
'15
11:05 a.m.
On 5/8/2015 12:22 PM, Brian L. Stuart wrote:
On May 8, 2015, at 8:27 AM, "John H.
Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com>
wrote:
Brian, Yep! I got a copy on magtape before I left Rose but I made the mistake of
leaving the tape unguarded when I was working at Flour-Fernald here in Cincinnati and an
operator in the computer room initialized it. :(
Dan had written a town into it and there were 4 or 5 different dungeons you could explore
by going back to town. That part was experimental AFAIK and you had to know someone to
get to play it. I never did.
It sure would have been nice if someone would have archived all the software at Rose
before the PDP and VAX left.
John H. Reinhardt
This is more in the vein of RSTS/E and VAX-11
games but
does anyone have a copy of the Dan Lawrence DND? It
used to be hosted on <http://dnd.lunaticsworld.com/> but that site's
server crashed and the files were lost and the ownder did
not allow the Wayback to archive it.
I wasted so much time on that at school at
Rose-Hulman. A Rose student also did a lot of
modifications to our copy. I had a tape with it once but it
was destroyed by accident.
Is that the one Dan Day worked on? I'm pretty sure he did that
before I got there, but as I remember the story, he played the
game and got to the point where there wasn't really an endgame.
So he wrote a FORTRAN decompiler to turn the binary into source
that he could modify, wrote an endgame, and then recompiled
the results.
BLS