> On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:47, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On 7/23/20 10:25 AM, Lars Brinkhoff wrote: >> Chuck Guzis wrote: >>> Well, if one wanted to stay historically accurate, one would use a >>> PDP-10. >> >> It's not Crowther's Adventure, but the Infocom games. > > Infocom's games were based on Crowther, after all. I remember porting > the PDP-10 FORTRAN to CDC 6000 SCOPE 3.4. I got the source from a friend > who was a DEC CE. After converting the source tape, the "save game" > was probably the biggest difference in implementation. I used FTN > (FORTRAN extended) to do the deed, rather than RUN. > > After the game had been distributed at CDC SVLOPS, there was a concerted > effort by management to purge the thing from all of the permanent file > catalogs. Luckily, management never discovered who introduced the game > in the first place... > > So yes, Adventure/Colossal Cave did run on an honest big mainframe. > > I never played the game much myself, as I had access to the source, so I > knew the innards of the game. > > --Chuck
Loosely based, of course. And Bob Supnik’s FORTRAN version was also ported to VM/CMS, so that’s two mainframes. Rich Alderson ex-Living Computers: Museum + Labs http://www.panix.com/~alderson/ Sent from my iPhone
