On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, william degnan <billdeg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... 80x24 text games that can be played on an ANSI (VT100) >> terminal and especially non-ANSI (VT52 or that IBM 3101) on >> Unix/Linux, VMS, and RT-11. > > I never checked, I did not know there were VAX games that you could > download/compile and run locally. One of my VAXen has BASIC installed, but > most are mostly file servers. I'd like to learn more myself.
Back in the day when I used VAXen and terminals all day, every day, we had a variety of exectutable games for VMS (and we never had BASIC on that machine). One of the most popular was EMPIRE (to disambiguate, this EMPIRE was a single-player, random world with armies, planes and ships where you captured a city, changed its production and took over the world - binary only, source never released). I also ported a number of UNIX games acquired from comp.sources.games and comp.games.unix to VMS with a VMS curses library and a C compiler (Whitesmith's C, which we used for our own development, and later, VAX-C) including rogue and Larn. I had the Infotaskforce "pinfocom" Z-machine when it was _the_ 3rd-party Z-machine. In the FORTRAN realm, there's ADVENT and DUNGEON (Bob Supnik's port of Zork) and I'm sure plenty more. These I have on old backup images (and probably on the 8300 in the basement). I'm looking for stuff I might not have known of 25-30 years ago. -ethan
