4.1c BSD

It’s been a long while since I’ve posted anything VAX BSD related.  So I found this ISO image a while back that had all these old versions of BSD on them, but sadly many of them are incomplete, missing parts, and give really no clue on how to use them.  There is even some duplication thrown in there just to complicate things further.  So I figured I’d try one of them, an interim release of 4 BSD and see if I could just overlay a newer release version and see what I get…

VAX780 simulator V3.8-1
Listening on port 23 (socket 156)
loading ra(0,0)boot
Boot
: ra(0,0)vmunix
215688+63964+69764 start 0xf98
4.1c BSD UNIX #2: Tue Aug 28 09:39:12 PDT 1984
real mem  = 8384512
avail mem = 7036928
using 148 buffers containing 838656 bytes of memory
mcr0 at tr1
mcr1 at tr2
uba0 at tr3
hk0 at uba0 csr 177440 vec 210, ipl 15
rk0 at hk0 slave 0
rk1 at hk0 slave 1
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 15
ra0 at uda0 slave 0
ra1 at uda0 slave 1
zs0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224, ipl 15
ts0 at zs0 slave 0
dz0 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 300, ipl 15
mba0 at tr8
root on ra0
WARNING: should run interleaved swap with >= 2Mb
Automatic reboot in progress...
Tue Aug 28 09:54:53 PDT 1984
/dev/rra0a: 836 files, 6010 used, 1419 free (35 frags, 173 blocks)
/dev/rra0h: 6598 files, 41780 used, 320080 free (160 frags, 79980 blocks)
Tue Aug 28 09:54:58 PDT 1984
local daemons: telnetd ftpd tftpd syslog sendmail.
preserving editor files
clearing /tmp
standard daemons: update cron accounting berknet mail printer.
starting network: rshd rexecd rlogind rwhod routed.
Tue Aug 28 09:55:00 PDT 1984

ucbmonet login: root
Last login: Tue Aug 28 09:44:44 on tty00
4.1c BSD UNIX #2: Tue Aug 28 09:39:12 PDT 1984
Master source now lives here; freeze your 4.1c stuff now.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
                -- Albert Einstein
monet#

Pretty cool.  And oddly enough googling around doesn’t seem to find much about people running 4.1c BSD, but it is significant with the first version of sendmail being bundled, and rogue.

The release also includes TCP/IP support but I haven’t the slightest idea how to use it.  I suppose reading the instructions is key.  But I thought I’d share this little fossil first.

For those who want to try it, you can download it here.  It’s using SIMH, so if you aren’t running Windows, bring your own VAX 11/780 and you’ll be good to go.

Linux turns 20 today….

Wow 1991 was so long ago.  I didn’t get pulled into Linux until the summer of 1992 (0.12 I think?), but wow I’ve sure had my ups & downs with Linux but it certainly had a major impact on everything we do.  Even if it is ‘kind of fringe’ it is in all kinds of things all around us all over the place.  No doubt the whole 20 year thing has been covered pretty much everywhere.

You would be kidding yourself if you have used anything on the internet and not had any interaction with a Linux machine in some manner.  Heck even this blog runs on a Linux VM.

While Linux 0.10 may have been the first ‘usable’ version to many, 0.11 is the first version that has been preserved.  I had even did a Qemu bundle of 0.11 that oldlinux.org had put together as I find Qemu runs Linux better, and of course faster than Bochs.

So here we are and I thought I’d update the Qemu and add in a personal favorite this time…

Download it from sourceforge.

uudecode

Sometimes taking a binary and sending it through a text only medium (email) is a damned handy thing.  And sometimes you are dealing with old crap and being able to decode what you’ve just built would help a TONNE.

Luckily uudecode already exists.  So before I forget it, the link to a nice BSD version that’ll compile on any good UNIX and MS-DOS system is available here.

Follow up on Dungeon (zork) for RT-11

I have documented the install steps back here, a long while back.  However recently I did get a request for a binary for this for someone to try to load up  on a physical PDP-11.  The steps sure are duanting and of course time consuming for a first time user, so while I was building dungeon again, I thought I should take this opertunity to package this up and make it more accesable for everyone.

This is the output of my ‘effort’ although the real thanks to this goes to Bob Supnik ,not only for writing SIMH making it possible, but also for porting Dungeon to Fortran way back then.

Extract the archive using 7zip, then run pdp11.exe and it should boot you up into RT-11.  Then just type in

RUN DUNGEON

And you should be teleported to the open field west of a big white house with a boarded front door…

Open Mailbox

Star Traders

While looking for various source code for TradeWars, I did stumble upon The Mushroom Cloud BBS which has source for the ancient Basic and Pascal versions.  They also have Star Traders & Star Traders 2 which apparently were some kind of inspiration to Trade Wars.  Those two were written for the HP 2100 times haring basic system which is… incredibly complicated.. Or too much so for my poor brain.

Some more searching did reveal STAR TRADERS, a port to Altair BASIC 4.0 by – S J Singer.  Now Altair BASIC, is Microsoft Basic!  So I figured I could probably try it with Quick Basic, and see if it runs, which it surprisingly did!  I went for the next step to compile it and it snagged on a few things.  There is about 4 things to correct and then I’ve got a MS-DOS executable!  But while this is all fun in emulation, It’d be far more cool, say if I could build a Win32 executable… Enter QB64!

The best thing is that it looks and feels just like QuickBASIC!

And while I did have to make a few more minor changes, I had it running as a 32bit exe in a few minutes!

For the two or three people who care, you can download the source & Win32 exe here.  QB64 supports Linux & OS X so you can run it on those platforms as well!

Here is the Altair Basic Source

5 REM STAR TRADERS
10 REM – MODIFIED FOR ‘ALTAIR BASIC 4.0’ BY – S J SINGER
20 REM
30 REM
35 DEFINT C
36 DEFINT I
40 DIM M(10,13),S(5,4),N$(5),D1(5),S1(5),Q(5),M$(12),C$(25)
50 DIM C1$(25),C2$(25)
60 DATA 1,”‘ALTAIR STARWAYS'”
70 DATA 2,”‘BETELGEUSE,LTD.'”
80 DATA 3,”‘CAPELLA FREIGHT CO.'”
90 DATA 4,”‘DENEBOLA SHIPPERS'”
100 DATA 5,”‘ERIDANI EXPEDITERS'”
110 Z1$=CHR$(26)+CHR$(0)
120 CLS
130 FOR I=1 TO 5
140 FOR J=1 TO 4
150 S(I,J)=0: D1(I)=0: S1(I)=100: Q(I)=0: B(I)=6000
160 NEXT J
170 NEXT I
180 L$=”.+*ABCDE”
190 M$=”ABCDEFGHIJKL”
195 PRINT” ********** STAR TRADERS **********”:PRINT
197 PRINT:PRINT
200 INPUT “TYPE A 3 DIGIT NUMBER “;R1
220 R1=RND(-R1/1000)
230 FOR I=1 TO 9
240 FOR J=1 TO 12
250 IF INT(20*RND(R1)+1)<>10 THEN M(I,J)=1 ELSE M(I,J)=3
260 NEXT J
270 NEXT I
280 CLS
290 INPUT “HOW MANY PLAYERS (2-4) “;P1
300 PRINT:PRINT
310 INPUT “DOES ANY PLAYER NEED INSTRUCTIONS “;Q$
320 IF Q$ =”Y” THEN GOSUB 3410
330 CLS
340 FOR I=1 TO P1
350 PRINT “PLAYER”,I,
370 INPUT ” WHAT IS YOUR NAME “;P$
380 IF I=1 THEN P1$=P$
390 IF I=2 THEN P2$=P$
400 IF I=3 THEN P3$=P$
410 IF I=4 THEN P4$=P$
420 NEXT I
430 CLS
440 PRINT TAB(10),”…NOW I WILL DECIDE WHO GOES FIRST…”:: PRINT:PRINT
445 PRINT:PRINT
450 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
460 I=INT(P1*RND(R1)+1)
470 GOSUB 490
480 GOTO 550
490 PRINT
500 ON I GOTO 510,520,530,540: REM – IDENTIFY PLAYER
510 PRINT P1$;:P5$=P1$: RETURN
520 PRINT P2$;:P5$=P2$: RETURN
530 PRINT P3$;:P5$=P3$: RETURN
540 PRINT P4$;:P5$=P4$: RETURN
550 PRINT ” IS THE FIRST PLAYER TO MOVE.”
560 FOR W=1 TO 2000: NEXT
570 K=0
580 P=I:GOTO 610
590 K=K+1: IF K=48 THEN 4450
600 P=P+1: IF P=P1+1 THEN P=1
610 FOR I=1 TO 5: REM SELECT 5 LEGAL MOVES
620 R(I)=INT(9*RND(R1)+1)
630 C(I)=INT(12*RND(R1)+1)
640 FOR I1=I-1 TO 0 STEP -1
650 IF R(I)=R(I1) AND C(I)=C(I1) THEN 620
660 NEXT I1
670 IF M(R(I),C(I))>1 THEN 620
680 FOR I1=1 TO 5
690 IF Q(I1)=0 THEN 870
700 NEXT I1
710 IF M(R(I),C(I)+1)>3 THEN 870
720 IF M(R(I),C(I)-1)>3 THEN 870
730 IF M(R(I)+1,C(I))>3 THEN 870
740 IF M(R(I)-1,C(I))>3 THEN 870
750 A1=M(R(I),C(I)+1)
760 A2=M(R(I),C(I)-1)
770 A3=M(R(I)+1,C(I))
780 A4=M(R(I)-1,C(I))
790 IF A1=2 AND A2<4 AND A3<4 AND A4<4 THEN 620
800 IF A2=2 AND A1<4 AND A3<4 AND A4<4 THEN 620
810 IF A3=2 AND A1<4 AND A2<4 AND A4<4 THEN 620
820 IF A4=2 AND A1<4 AND A2<4 AND A3<4 THEN 620
830 IF A1=3 AND A2<4 AND A3<4 AND A4<4 THEN 620
840 IF A2=3 AND A1<4 AND A3<4 AND A4<4 THEN 620
850 IF A3=3 AND A1<4 AND A2<4 AND A4<4 THEN 620
860 IF A4=3 AND A1<4 AND A2<4 AND A3<4 THEN 620
870 NEXT I
880 GOSUB 2060
890 PRINT
900 I=P
910 GOSUB 490
920 PRINT “, HERE ARE YOUR LEGAL MOVES FOR THIS TURN”
930 PRINT
940 FOR I=1 TO 5
950 PRINT R(I);MID$(M$,C(I),1);” “;
960 NEXT I
970 PRINT:PRINT
980 INPUT “WHAT IS YOUR MOVE “;R$
990 IF LEN(R$)=0 THEN R$=”S”
1000 IF LEFT$(R$,1)=”M” THEN R$=”” ELSE 1030
1010 GOSUB 2060
1020 GOTO 900
1030 IF LEFT$(R$,1)=”S” THEN R$=”” ELSE 1060
1040 GOSUB 3230
1050 GOTO 900
1060 IF LEN(R$)<>2 THEN 1110
1070 IF ASC(MID$(R$,2,1))-64<1 THEN 1110
1080 IF ASC(MID$(R$,2,1))-64>12 THEN 1110 ELSE 1120
1090 IF VAL(R$)<1 THEN 1110
1100 IF VAL(R$)>9 THEN 1110
1110 PRINT “I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND THAT – TRY AGAIN “: GOTO 980
1120 R=VAL(LEFT$(R$,1))
1130 C=ASC(RIGHT$(R$,1))-64
1140 FOR I= 1 TO 5
1150 IF R=R(I) AND C=C(I) THEN 1190
1160 NEXT I
1170 PRINT “THAT SPACE WAS NOT INCLUDGD IN THE LIST…”
1180 GOTO 980
1190 A1=M(R-1,C)
1200 A2=M(R+1,C)
1210 A3=M(R,C+1)
1220 A4=M(R,C-1)
1230 IF A1<=1 AND A2<=1 AND A3<=1 AND A4<=1 THEN M(R,C)=2 ELSE 1250
1240 GOTO 1760
1250 IF A1>3 AND A2>3 AND A2<>A1 THEN GOSUB 2220:REM – LINE 2090 IS
1260 IF A1>3 AND A3>3 AND A3<>A1 THEN GOSUB 2220:REM THE MERGER SUB.
1270 IF A1>3 AND A4>3 AND A4<>A1 THEN GOSUB 2220
1280 IF A2>3 AND A3>3 AND A3<>A2 THEN GOSUB 2220
1290 IF A2>3 AND A4>3 AND A4<>A2 THEN GOSUB 2220
1300 IF A3>3 AND A4>3 AND A4<>A3 THEN GOSUB 2220
1310 IF A1<4 AND A2<4 AND A3<4 AND A4<4 THEN 1410
1320 IF M(R,C)>3 THEN 1760
1330 IF A1>3 THEN I=A1-3
1340 IF A2>3 THEN I=A2-3
1350 IF A3>3 THEN I=A3-3
1360 IF A4>3 THEN I=A4-3
1370 Q(I)=Q(I)+1
1380 S1(I)=S1(I)+100
1390 M(R,C)=I+3
1400 GOTO 1570
1410 FOR I=1 TO 5
1420 IF Q(I)=0 THEN 1460
1430 NEXT I
1440 IF M(R,C)<3 THEN M(R,C)=2
1450 GOTO 1760
1460 CLS
1470 GOSUB 3370
1480 PRINT “A NEW SHIPPING COMPANY HAS BEEN FORMED !”
1490 PRINT “IT’S NAME IS “,
1500 RESTORE
1510 READ N,C$
1520 IF I<>N THEN 1510
1530 PRINT C$
1540 S(I,P)=S(I,P)+5
1550 Q(I)=1
1560 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
1570 IF A1=3 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+500
1580 IF A2=3 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+500
1590 IF A3=3 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+500
1600 IF A4=3 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+500
1610 IF A1=2 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+100 ELSE 1640
1620 Q(I)=Q(I)+1
1630 M(R-1,C)=I+3
1640 IF A2=2 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+100 ELSE 1670
1650 Q(I)=Q(I)+1
1660 M(R+1,C)=I+3
1670 IF A3=2 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+100 ELSE 1700
1680 Q(I)=Q(I)+1
1690 M(R,C+1)=I+3
1700 IF A4=2 THEN S1(I)=S1(I)+100 ELSE 1730
1710 Q(I)=Q(I)+1
1720 M(R,C-1)=I+3
1730 IF S1(I)>=3000 THEN T1=I ELSE 1750
1740 GOSUB 3100
1750 M(R,C)=I+3
1760 FOR I=1 TO 5
1770 B(P)=B(P)+INT(.05*S(I,P)*S1(I))
1780 NEXT I
1790 FOR I=1 TO 5
1800 IF Q(I)=0 THEN 2040
1810 PRINT:PRINT “YOUR CURRENT CASH= $”;B(P)
1820 PRINT:PRINT “BUY HOW MANY SHARES OF “;
1830 RESTORE
1840 READ N,C$
1850 IF I<>N THEN 1840
1860 PRINT C$;
1870 PRINT ” AT $”;S1(I)
1880 PRINT TAB(5); “YOU NOW OWN “;S(I,P);
1890 INPUT R3$:IF LEN(R3$)=0 THEN R3$=”0″
1900 IF R3$(1,1)=”M” THEN R3$=”” ELSE 1930
1910 GOSUB 2060
1920 GOTO 1810
1930 IF R3$(1,1)=”S” THEN R3$=”” ELSE 1960
1940 GOSUB 3230
1950 GOTO 1810
1960 R3=VAL(R3$)
1970 R3$=””
1980 IF R3*S1(I)<=B(P) THEN 2010
1990 PRINT “YOU ONLY HAVE $”;B(P);” – TRY AGAIN”
2000 GOTO 1810
2010 IF R3=0 THEN 2040
2020 S(I,P)=S(I,P)+R3
2030 B(P)=B(P)-(R3*S1(I))
2040 NEXT I
2050 GOTO 590
2060 CLS: REM SUBROUTINE – PRINT MAP
2070 PRINT TAB(22);”MAP OF THE GALAXY”
2080 PRINT TAB(21);”*******************”
2090 PRINT TAB(13);” A B C D E F G H I J K L”
2100 FOR R2=1 TO 9
2110 PRINT” “;R2;” “;
2120 FOR C2=1 TO 12
2130 PRINT” “;
2140 Z2=M(R2,C2)
2150 IF Z2=0 THEN Z2=Z2+1
2160 PRINT MID$(L$,Z2,1)” “;
2180 NEXT
2190 PRINT
2200 NEXT
2210 RETURN
2220 F1=A1-3: IF F1<0 THEN F1=0:REM SUBROUTINE – CALCULATES THE
2230 F2=A2-3: IF F2<0 THEN F2=0:REM SURVIVOR IN THE EVENT
2240 F3=A3-3: IF F3<0 THEN F3=0:REM OF A MERGER
2250 F4=A4-3: IF F4<0 THEN F4=0
2260 T=Q(F1)
2270 T1=F1
2280 IF Q(F2)>Q(F1) THEN T=Q(F2) ELSE 2300
2290 T1=F2
2300 IF Q(F3)>T THEN T=Q(F3) ELSE 2320
2310 T1=F3
2320 IF Q(F4)>T THEN T=Q(F4) ELSE 2340
2330 T1=F4
2340 IF F1=T1 OR A1<4 THEN 2370
2350 X=F1
2360 GOSUB 2470
2370 IF F2=T1 OR A2<4 THEN 2400
2380 X=F2
2390 GOSUB 2470
2400 IF F3=T1 OR A3<4 THEN 2430
2410 X=F3
2420 GOSUB 2470
2430 IF F4=T1 OR A4<4 THEN 2460
2440 X=F4
2450 GOSUB 2470
2460 RETURN
2470 CLS
2480 GOSUB 3370: REM SUBROUTINE – PERFORMS CALCULATIONS
2490 RESTORE: REM TO ACCOMPLISH A MERGER
2500 READ N,C$
2510 IF X<>N THEN 2500
2520 C1$=C$
2530 PRINT C1$;
2540 PRINT ” HAS JUST BEEN MERGED INTO “;
2550 RESTORE
2560 READ N,C$
2570 IF T1<>N THEN 2560
2580 C2$=C$
2590 PRINT C2$;”!”
2610 PRINT “PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING TRANSACTIONS.”
2620 PRINT
2630 PRINT TAB(3);”OLD STOCK = “;C1$;” NEW STOCK = “;
2640 PRINT C2$
2650 PRINT
2660 PRINT “PLAYER”;TAB(10);”OLD STOCK”;TAB(22);”NEW STOCK”;
2670 PRINT TAB(34);”TOTAL HOLDINGS”;TAB(53);”BONUS PAID”
2680 FOR I=1 TO P1
2690 GOSUB 490
2700 PRINT TAB(10);S(X,I);TAB(22);INT((.5*S(X,I))+.5);
2710 PRINT TAB(34);S(T1,I)+INT((.5*S(X,I))+.5);
2720 X1=0
2730 FOR I1=1 TO P1
2740 X1=X1+S(X,I1)
2750 NEXT
2760 PRINT TAB(53);” $”;INT(10*((S(X,I)/X1)*S1(X)))
2770 NEXT I
2780 FOR I=1 TO P1
2790 S(T1,I)=S(T1,I)+INT((.5*S(X,I))+.5)
2800 B(I)=B(I)+INT(10*((S(X,I)/X1)*S1(X)))
2810 NEXT I
2820 FOR I=1 TO 9
2830 FOR J=1 TO 12
2840 IF M(I,J)=X+3 THEN M(I,J)=T1+3
2850 NEXT J
2860 NEXT I
2870 A1=M(R-1,C)
2880 A2=M(R+1,C)
2890 A3=M(R,C+1)
2900 A4=M(R,C-1)
2910 F1=A3-3
2920 IF F1<0 THEN F1=0
2930 F2=A2-3
2940 IF F2<0 THEN F2=0
2950 Q(T1)=Q(T1)+Q(X)
2960 S1(T1)=S1(T1)+S1(X)
2970 IF S1(T1)=>3000 THEN GOSUB 3100
2980 F3=A3-3
2990 IF F3<0 THEN F3=0
3000 F4=A4-3
3010 IF F4<0 THEN F4=0
3020 S1(X)=100
3030 Q(X)=0
3040 FOR I=1 TO P1
3050 S(X,I)=0
3060 NEXT I
3070 PRINT:PRINT
3080 M(R,C)=T1+3
3090 RETURN
3100 GOSUB 3370: REM SUBROUTINE – CALCULATES STOCK SPLITS
3110 PRINT “THE STOCK OF “,
3120 RESTORE
3130 READ N,C$
3140 IF T1<>N THEN 3130
3150 PRINT C$,
3160 PRINT ” HAS SPLIT 2 FOR 1 !”
3170 S1(T1)=INT(S1(T1)/2)
3180 PRINT:PRINT
3190 FOR I1=1 TO P1
3200 S(T1,I1)=2*S(T1,I1)
3210 NEXT I1
3220 RETURN
3230 CLS
3240 PRINT
3250 PRINT “STOCK”;TAB(30);”PRICE PER SHARE”;
3260 PRINT TAB(50);”YOUR HOLDINGS”
3270 FOR I3=1 TO 5
3280 IF S1(I3)=100 THEN 3340
3290 RESTORE
3300 READ N,C$
3310 IF I3<>N THEN 3300
3320 PRINT C$,
3330 PRINT TAB(30);S1(I3);TAB(50);S(I3,P)
3340 NEXT I3
3350 RESTORE
3360 RETURN
3370 PRINT CHR$(7)
3380 PRINT TAB(22);”SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT !!!”:PRINT
3390 PRINT
3400 RETURN
3410 CLS
3420 PRINT ” STAR LANES IS A GAME OF INTERSTELLAR TRADING.”
3430 PRINT “THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO AMASS THE GREATEST AMOUNT”
3440 PRINT “OF MONEY. THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED BY ESTABLISHING VAST,”
3450 PRINT “INTERSTELLAR SHIPPING LANES, AND PURCHASING STOCK IN”
3460 PRINT “THE COMPANIES THAT CONTROL THOSE TRADE ROUTES. DURING”
3470 PRINT “THE COURSE OF THE GAME, STOCK APPRECIATES IN VALUE AS”
3480 PRINT “THE SHIPPING COMPANIES BECOME LARGER. ALSO, SMALLER”
3490 PRINT “COMPANIES CAN BE MERGED INTO LARGER ONES, AND STOCK”
3500 PRINT “IN THE SMALLER FIRM IS CONVERTED INTO STOCK IN THE”
3510 PRINT “LARGER ONE AS DESCRIBED BELOW.”:PRINT
3520 PRINT “EACH TURN, THE COMPUTER WILL PRESENT THE PLAYER WITH”
3530 PRINT “FIVE PROSPECTIVE SPACES TO OCCUPY ON A 9X12 MATRIX”
3540 PRINT “(ROWS 1-9, COLUMNS A-L). THE PLAYER, AFTER EXAMINING”
3550 PRINT “THE MAP OF THE GALAXY TO DECIDE WHICH SPACE HE WISHES”
3560 PRINT “TO OCCUPY, RESPONDS WITH THE ROW AND COLUMN OF THAT”
3570 PRINT “SPACE, I.E., 7E, 8A, ETC. THERE ARE FOUR POSSIBLE”
3580 PRINT “MOVES A PLAYER CAN MAKE.”:PRINT:PRINT
3590 PRINT
3600 GOSUB 3620
3610 GOTO 3660
3620 INPUT “PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE”;X2$
3650 RETURN
3660 CLS
3670 PRINT ” 1. HE CAN ESTABLISH AN UNATTACHED OUTPOST- IF HE”
3680 PRINT “SELECTS A SPACE THAT IS NOT ADJACENT TO A STAR, ANOTHER”
3690 PRINT “UNATTACHED OUTPOST, OR AN EXISTING SHIPPING LANE, THIS”
3700 PRINT “SPACE WILL BE DESIGNATED WITH A ‘+’. HE WILL THEN PROCEED”
3710 PRINT “WITH STOCK TRANSACTIONS, AS LISTED BELOW.”:PRINT
3720 PRINT ” 2. HE CAN ADD TO AN EXISTING LANE- IF HE SELECTS A”
3730 PRINT “SPACE THAT IS ADJACENT TO ONE – AND ONLY ONE EXISTING”
3740 PRINT “SHIPPING LANE, THE SPACE HE SELECTS WILL BE ADDED TO”
3750 PRINT “THAT SHIPPING LANE AND WILL BE DISIGNATED WITH THE FIRST”
3760 PRINT “LETTER OF THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THAT LANE. IF THERE ARE”
3770 PRINT “ANY STARS OR UNATTACHED OUTPOSTS ALSO ADJACENT TO THE”
3780 PRINT “SELECTED SPACE, THEY, TOO, WILL BE INCORPORATED INTO THE”
3790 PRINT “EXISTING LANE. EACH NEW SQUARE ADJACENT TO A STAR ADDS”
3800 PRINT “$500 PER SHARE, AND EACH NEW OUTPOST ADDS $100 PER SHARE”
3810 PRINT “TO THE MARKET VALUE OF THE STOCK OF THAT COMPANY.”
3820 PRINT:PRINT
3830 GOSUB 3620
3840 CLS
3850 PRINT ” 3. HE MAY ESTABLISH A NEW SHIPPING LANE- IF THERE”
3860 PRINT “ARE FIVE OR LESS EXISTING SHIPPING LANES ESTABLISHED,”
3870 PRINT “THE PLAYER MAY, GIVEN THE PROPER SPACE TO PLAY, ESTABLISH”
3880 PRINT “A NEW SHIPPING LANE. HE MAY DO THIS BY OCCUPYING A SPACE”
3890 PRINT “ADJACENT TO A STAR OR ANOTHER UNATTACHED OUTPOST, BUT”
3900 PRINT “NOT ADJACENT TO AN EXISTING SHIPPING LANE. IF HE”
3910 PRINT “ESTABLISHES A NEW SHIPPING LANE, HE IS AUTOMATICALLY”
3920 PRINT “ISSUED 5 SHARES KN THE NEW COMPANY AS A REWARD. HE”
3930 PRINT “MAY THEN PROCEED TO BUY STOCK IN ANY ACTIVE COMPANY,”
3940 PRINT “INCLUDKNG THE ONE JUST FORMED, AS DESCRIBED BELOW.”
3950 PRINT “THG MARKET VALUE OF THE NEW STOCK IS ESTABLISHED BY”
3960 PRINT “THE NUMBER OF STARS AND OCCUPIED SPACES AS DESCRIBED”
3970 PRINT “IN #2 ABOVE.”
3980 PRINT:PRINT
3990 GOSUB 3620
4000 CLS
4010 PRINT ” 4. HE MAY MERGE TWO EXISTING COMPANIES- IF A PLAYER”
4020 PRINT “SELECTS A SPACE ADJACENT TO TWO EXISTING SHIPPING”
4030 PRINT “LANES, A MERGER OCCURS. THE LARGER COMPANY TAKES OVER THE”
4040 PRINT “SMALLER COMPANY – (IF BOTH COMPANIES ARE THE SAME SIZE”
4050 PRINT “PRIOR TO THE MERGER, THEN THE SURVIVOR IS DETERMINED BY”
4060 PRINT “ALPHABETICAL ORDER OF THE TWO COMPANY NAMES – THE EARLIER”
4070 PRINT “SURVIVES). THE STOCK OF THE SURVIVING COMPANY IS”
4080 PRINT “INCREASED IN VALUE ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF SPACES”
4090 PRINT “AND STARS ADDED TO ITS LANE. EACH PLAYERS STOCK IN”
4100 PRINT “THE DEFUNCT COMPANY IS EXCHANGED FOR SHARES KN THE”
4110 PRINT “SURVIVOR ON A RATIO OF 2 FOR 1. ALSO, EACH PLAYER”
4120 PRINT “IS PAID A CASH BONUS PROPORTIONAL TO THE PERCENTAGE”
4130 PRINT “OF OUTSTANDING STOCK HE HELD IN THE DEFUNCT COMPANY.”
4140 PRINT “NOTE: AFTER A COMPANY BECOMES DEFUNCT THROUGH THE”
4150 PRINT “MERGER PROCESS, IT CAN REAPPEAR ELSEWHERE ON THE”
4160 PRINT “BOARD WHEN, AND IF, A NEW COMPANY IS ESTABLISHED.”
4170 PRINT:PRINT
4180 GOSUB 3620
4190 CLS
4200 PRINT ” NEXT THE COMPUTER CDDS STOCK DIVIDENDS TO THE PLAYER’S”
4210 PRINT “CASH ON HAND (5% OF THE MARKET VALUE OF THE STOCK IN HIS”
4220 PRINT “POSSESSION), AND OFFERS HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO PURCHASE”
4230 PRINT “STOCK KN ANY OF THE ACTIVE COMPANIES ON THE BOARD.”
4240 PRINT “STOCK MAY NOT BE SOLD, BUT THE MARKET VALUE OF EACH”
4250 PRINT “PLAYER’S STOCK IS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT AT THE END OF THE”
4260 PRINT “GAME TO DETERMINE THE WINNER. IF THE OARKET VALUE OF A GIVEN”
4270 PRINT “STOCK EXCEEDS $3000 AT ANY TIME DURING THE GAME, THAT”
4280 PRINT “STOCK SPLITS 2 FOR 1. THE PRICE IS CUT IN HALF, AND”
4290 PRINT “THE NUMBER OF SHARES OWNED BY GACH PLAYER IS DOUBLED.”
4300 PRINT
4310 PRINT “NOTE: THE PLAYER MAY LOOK AT HIS PORTFOLIO AT ANY TIME”
4320 PRINT “DURING THE COURSE OF HIS TURN BY RESPONDING WITH ‘STOCK'”
4330 PRINT “TO AN INPUT STATEMENT. LIKEWISE, HE CAN REVIEW THE MAP”
4340 PRINT “OF THE GALAXY BY TYPING ‘MAP’ TO AN INPUT STATEMENT.”
4350 PRINT:PRINT
4360 GOSUB 3620
4370 CLS
4380 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
4390 PRINT TAB(16);”** GAME ENDS AFTER 48 MOVES **”
4400 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
4410 PRINT “PLAYER WITH THE GREATEST NET WORTH AT THAT POINT IS THE WINNER.”
4420 PRINT:PRINT
4430 FOR W=1 TO 2000:NEXT W
4440 RETURN
4450 CLS
4460 GOSUB 3370
4470 FOR W=1 TO 500:NEXT W:PRINT CHR$(7)
4480 FOR W=1 TO 500:NEXT W:PRINT CHR$(7)
4490 PRINT TAB(10),” THE GAME IS OVER – HERE ARE THE FINAL STANDINGS”
4500 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
4510 PRINT CHR$(7)
4520 PRINT “PLAYER”;TAB(10);”CASH VALUE OF STOCK”;TAB(33);”CASH ON HAND”,
4530 PRINT TAB(50);”NET WORTH”
4540 PRINT
4550 FOR I=1 TO P1
4560 FOR J=1 TO 5
4570 D1(I)=D1(I)+(S1(J)*S(J,I))
4580 NEXT J
4590 NEXT I
4600 FOR I=1 TO P1
4610 GOSUB 490
4620 PRINT TAB(10);”$”;D1(I);TAB(33);”$”;B(I);
4630 PRINT TAB(50);”$”;D1(I)+B(I)
4640 NEXT I
4650 PRINT:PRINT:PRINT:PRINT
4660 END

Oregon Trail

Oh noes!

I had just found out that the Oregon Trail game is a LOT older than the Apple II version that infested schools in the 1980’s and gave us the infamous broken axle. As a matter of fact it was first written for the HP 2100, in BASIC.

Yes the computer was the size of a wagon!

There is a most excellent blog, The Digital Antiquarian that goes over the restoration of this old gem.  Even better they managed to get it loaded up onto a timesharing image, on the internet so you can play it! (it’s been since taken offline. sorry).

You can download the source here/mirror, along with a revised 1978 version.

Directions from the site:

1. Telnet to mickey.ath.cx. (Telnet, mind you. None of that newfangled SSH!)
2. Slowly alternate CTL-J and CTL-M until you see a “PLEASE LOG IN” message.
3. Enter “HEL-T001,HP2000,1″. Without the quotes, of course — and note that those are zeroes. Oh, and the system isn’t case-sensitive, but for the authentic experience you might want to have your caps lock on.
4. Enter “GET-OREGON” to load the 1975 version, “GET-ORE2″ to load the 1978 version.
5. “LIST” the program if you like, or just “RUN” it.

You can download a working disk for the SIMH HP-2100 emulator(mirror) here/mirror.  This comes pre-loaded with the 1978 version.

HP-2100 menu

HP-2100 menu

Select option J and away you go.

It seems easier then I recall as a kid, not to mention I won the first time I played it!

Victory!

Qemu user forum down yet again…

http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/ is dead.  It’s been dead for ever a week now so I guess someone will have to step in and do something… lol.

So maybe I should take up the torch as it were.

I’m not all that happy with the setup but hell I may as well do something with superglobalmegacorp.com.

http://www.superglobalmegacorp.com/

No doubt I’ll have to rethink the layout it is too much..  And at the same time really not enough.  I also added some SIMH stuff but again I don’t know if that is too much?