Re: [TUHS] [PiDP-11] Some new text adventure stuff for 2.11BSD

I'm having a party on Saturday January 11 (and if any of you are in Tucson, or want to come to Tucson for it, you're invited; email me for the address and time). Although the party is Elvis-themed, it's really about boardgaming and classic videogaming. So I kind of wanted to put a general-purpose Z-machine interpreter on my PiDP-11, so that people could play Infocom (and community) games on a real terminal. Turns out there wasn't really one, so I ported the venerable ZIP (which I have renamed "zterp" for obvious reasons) to 2.11BSD on the PDP-11, and I also wrote a little utility I call "tmenu" to take a directory (and an optional command applying to files in the directory) and make a numbered menu, so that my guests who are not familiar with Actual Bourne Shell can play games too. These things are at: https://github.com/athornton/pdp11-zterp and https://github.com/athornton/pdp11-tmenu/ Both are K&R C, and compile with the 2.11BSD system C compiler. My biggest disappointment is that the memory map of Trinity, my favorite Infocom game, is weird and even though it's only a V5 game, I can't allocate enough memory to start it.  Other than that, V5 and below seem to work mostly fine; V8 is in theory supported but no game that I've tried has little enough low memory that I can malloc() it using C on 2.11BSD. Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "[PiDP-11]" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pidp-11+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:pidp-11+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pidp-11/CAP2nic3C7OW5OKPB_a2n9jOYDA7476MD… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pidp-11/CAP2nic3C7OW5OKPB_a2n9jOYDA7476MDRjgxKVyW0DkMKf6OsA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.