Comments on: Zork for the PDP-11 / RT-11 recreated https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-11-recreated/ Fun with Virtualization Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:28:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-11-recreated/comment-page-1/#comment-382013 Fri, 31 Jan 2025 19:28:37 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=13492#comment-382013 In reply to VAXORCIST.

I tried RTv3 over here:
https://www.headcrashers.org/comp/rx01/

running the zip built with v5 gives the same errors… but trying to assemble zip with the v3 macro assembler and guess what, errors in save & restore…

Im guessing there is something more to it, or the source doesn’t work out of the box..

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-11-recreated/comment-page-1/#comment-382012 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:52:55 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=13492#comment-382012 In reply to VAXORCIST.

I tried my old MS-DOS hosted SIM-H v3.8-1 for the heck of it, and had the same problem.

I still wonder if it’s the same version of the OS…? This thing was more myth than something real, might try asking Marc Blanc on reddit although it being what, 45 years since the whole zip/zap thing?

]]> By: VAXORCIST https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-11-recreated/comment-page-1/#comment-382010 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:40:47 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=13492#comment-382010 I used exactly what you did:
pdp11 without SET CPU
RT-11 V4 disk
PDP11.ZIP
I’m currently trying other CPUs and disabling unused devices, but no success so far :-((
Could you please try SAVE on your system?
Thanks

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-11-recreated/comment-page-1/#comment-382009 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:34:28 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=13492#comment-382009 In reply to VAXORCIST.

I’m not sure, it may be the CPU or os version?!

]]> By: VAXORCIST https://virtuallyfun.com/2023/11/21/zork-for-the-pdp-11-rt-11-recreated/comment-page-1/#comment-382007 Wed, 29 Jan 2025 13:58:07 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=13492#comment-382007 I prepared RT-11 according to your instructions.
I can play PLANETFALL, but when I try to SAVE the current state:
.RUN ZIP
Line width (default is 80, end with LF for status line):
File name (current default is DK:$GAME$.IML) *DK:PLANET.IML
PLANETFALL
Infocom interactive fiction – a science fiction story
Copyright (c) 1983 by Infocom, Inc. All rights reserved.
PLANETFALL is a trademark of Infocom, Inc.
Release 37 / Serial number 851003

Another routine day of drudgery aboard the Stellar Patrol Ship Feinstein. This
morning’s assignment for a certain lowly Ensign Seventh Class: scrubbing the
filthy metal deck at the port end of Level Nine. With your Patrol-issue
self-contained multi-purpose all-weather scrub brush you shine the floor with a
diligence born of the knowledge that at any moment dreaded Ensign First Class
Blather, the bane of your shipboard existence, could appear.

Deck Nine
This is a featureless corridor similar to every other corridor on the ship. It
curves away to starboard, and a gangway leads up. To port is the entrance to
one of the ship’s primary escape pods. The pod bulkhead is closed.

>SAVE
File name (current default is DK:PLA
?MON-F-Trap to 4 000002
.

Do you know what going wrong?

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