I use to play a version of Star Trek on an HP2000. Not a dumb terminal but a Teletype 35. Having the paper roll came in very handy.
-pete On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Jerome H. Fine <jhfined...@compsys.to> wrote: > >Ethan Dicks wrote: > > I've been meaning to ask this question since I started cleaning up >> terminals this year... what are some favorites? Some of the obvious >> classics are: >> >> Adventure >> Zork (and anything else on a Zmachine) >> Scott Adams Adventures >> Wumpus >> Anything in Dave Ahl's "101 BASIC Computing Games" >> Empire >> Star Trek >> rogue/hack >> Larn/Ularn >> >> But what are some other favorites? I've been running a monthly >> "retrogaming night" at our Makerspace and so far have brought out a >> C-64, a PPC Mac, and an 8032 PET. I'm looking to add a PDP-8 (via >> Oscar Vermuelen's PiDP-8, for portability) and (at first) a simh RT-11 >> box and/or VAX running VMS, though I have plenty of real DEC gear - >> it's a matter of transport and storage space). I have a VT220 and an >> IBM 3101 (very VT52-like with a working terminfo entry) already on >> site and can add additional terminals if this becomes popular (I may >> drag in a VT52 just for the excuse to clean one up). >> >> I have the Commodore end pretty well covered. I'm looking for >> suggestions for 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. So in general, anything that uses curses >> or direct ANSI sequences or just spews text to a glass tty. >> >> The only game I ever played consistently was the RT-11 SST (Super Start > Trek) > version of Star Trek which is still available at: > > http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp11/rt11/games/ > > Jerome Fine > >
