From thad@thadlabs.com Thu Feb 15 02:56:28 PST 2001 Article: 1072 of best.general Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!not-for-mail From: thad@thadlabs.com (Thad Floryan) Newsgroups: best.general Subject: Re: Web-savvy license plates Date: 14 Feb 2001 20:09:45 GMT Organization: ThadLABS; serving the computer industry for over a quarter-century Lines: 62 Distribution: best Message-ID: <96eom9$9vp$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> References: <96ei85$2lq$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> <96eif2$2v6$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.1.129.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 982181385 10233 66.1.129.158 (14 Feb 2001 20:09:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@best.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Feb 2001 20:09:45 GMT X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com best.general:1072 brian-usenet@enchanter.net (Brian Kendig) wrote: | All Pennsylvania license plates now have the state's web site address on | them. Pennsylvania is sending new plates to everyone in the state and | making them return their old plates. | | Seems like a great expense to me, but I guess Pennsylvania wants to look | modern...? Heh! When I was last there (Pittsburgh) several years ago on a business trip, everything appeared o-l-d. The Bookbinders restaurant was OK, though. Weird thing about their school system: nearly everyone I asked believed Gettysburg was in Virginia. | \ /\ / ..__. brian at enchanter net You are in a maze of twisty | \/ \__\ _/ http://www.enchanter.net/ little passages, all alike. Ah! Another ZORK fan! :-) Did you know that with the zmachine and the data file(s) from any C64, Amiga or PC floppy one can play ZORK and other InfoCOM games on even today's systems? Here's my "ZORK" directory on a Solaris box: -r--r----- 1 thad 109568 Feb 5 1992 Enchanter.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 129024 Feb 21 1992 Goddesses.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 113333 Feb 5 1992 Hitchhiker.dat drwxr-sr-x 2 thad 1024 Oct 19 1999 Infocom/ -r--r----- 1 thad 130048 Feb 21 1992 Lurking.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 109056 Feb 5 1992 Sorcerer.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 128481 Feb 5 1992 Spellbreaker.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 83968 Feb 5 1992 Starcross.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 226399 Feb 21 1992 XXX_Beyond-Zork.dat.Z -r--r----- 1 thad 263511 Feb 21 1992 XXX_Zork-Zero.dat.Z -r--r----- 1 thad 84877 Feb 5 1992 Zork-I.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 90112 Feb 5 1992 Zork-II.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 82944 Feb 5 1992 Zork-III.dat -r--r----- 1 thad 22409 Feb 20 1992 Zork_BYTE_1280 -rw-r----- 1 thad 12458 Mar 8 1992 aark drwxr-sr-x 2 thad 512 Oct 19 1999 decoder/ -rw-r----- 1 thad 12458 Mar 13 1992 garden -rw-r----- 1 thad 12458 Mar 14 1992 orphanage -rw-r----- 1 thad 12458 Mar 5 1992 save.cleveland -rw-r----- 1 thad 12458 Mar 3 1992 saveme drwxr-sr-x 2 thad 512 Oct 19 1999 vocabulary/ -rwxr-xr-x 1 thad 58556 Oct 19 1999 zmachine* $ ./zmachine Zork-I.dat ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire Copyright (c) 1981, 1982, 1983 Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved. ZORK is a registered trademark of Infocom, Inc. Revision 88 / Serial number 840726 West of House You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here. >q Your score is 0 (total of 350 points), in 0 moves. This gives you the rank of Beginner. Do you wish to leave the game? (Y is affirmative): > From inwap@best.com Thu Feb 15 02:56:33 PST 2001 Article: 1079 of best.general Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!inwap From: inwap@best.com (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: best.general Subject: Re: Web-savvy license plates Date: 15 Feb 2001 10:51:15 GMT Organization: Chez Inwap Lines: 16 Distribution: best Message-ID: <96gcb3$2cho$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> References: <96ei85$2lq$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> <96eif2$2v6$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> <96eom9$9vp$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell3.ba.best.com X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 982234275 78392 206.184.139.134 (15 Feb 2001 10:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@best.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Feb 2001 10:51:15 GMT Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com best.general:1079 In article <96eom9$9vp$1@nntp1.ba.best.com>, Thad Floryan wrote: >| \ /\ / ..__. brian at enchanter net You are in a maze of twisty >| \/ \__\ _/ http://www.enchanter.net/ little passages, all alike. > >Ah! Another ZORK fan! :-) Hey! These young whipper shappers have no sense of history! Real men know that the above quote comes from ADVENT, the original Colossal Cave adventure. ADVENT came out in 1972, ZORK didn't arrive until 1977. http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Mainframe_adventures.html -Joe -- See http://www.inwap.com/ for PDP-10 and "ReBoot" pages. From richmond@ev1.net Sun Aug 24 01:19:38 PDT 2003 Article: 21247 of alt.sys.pdp10 Path: iad-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!pln-e!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn13feed!wn11feed!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!204.127.198.203!attbi_feed3!attbi.com!sccrnsc04.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F37475C.194569B@ev1.net> From: Charles Richmond Reply-To: richmond@ev1.net Organization: Canine Computer Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; EBM-APPLE} (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Request for source code for adventure game Haunt on the DEC-10/20 References: <3f36cae1@shknews01> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 53 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.241.15.59 X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-Trace: sccrnsc04 1060580376 12.241.15.59 (Mon, 11 Aug 2003 05:39:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 05:39:36 GMT Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 05:39:36 GMT Xref: dfw-artgen comp.sys.dec:30169 alt.sys.pdp10:21247 David Evans wrote: > > In article <3f36cae1@shknews01>, Jeroen Lodewijks wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I am not sure if this the right group but I will give it a try anyway: > > > >Years ago I used to play a text adventure game on the DEC 20 called Haunt. > >It's a great game which provided many hours of fun. > > > >It is written in Ops4 and unique to the DEC 10/20 > > > > Is this it? > > @haunt > > This is HAUNT. Version 4.6 > See NEWS for news. > Have you played before?[yes] > * > > If so then it's at twenex.org. I don't know whether they have the source > but have cross-posted this to alt.sys.pdp10 to see whether anybody there > knows anything. > According to what I have found, HAUNT was written in the OPS4 language by John Laird at Carnegie Mellon University around 1980-81. The original source is missing-in-action. There is a source for HAUNT in OPS5 (*not* OPS4) on the Interactive-Fiction Archive. It can be found here: Some information on this game can be found at: < http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/haunt.html> and There are some OPS5 programming systems around the 'net...you can find them by googling...ISTM you are going to need an OPS5 interpreter to run this source code... -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Charles and Francis Richmond richmond at plano dot net | +----------------------------------------------------------------+