Bringing Zork back home

[Adam Thornton]

I now have a working port of dumb-frotz 2.32r1 to TOPS-20 on the PDP-10.

The sources that will work with KCC on TOPS-20 (included as part of the
pandas TOPS-20 distribution) are in the "master" branch of:

https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz

The modified sources (to make Frotz 36-bit clean) are in the "unix"
branch.

Alternatively, you can get the "gnusto-frotz-tops20" sources from
https://github.com/athornton/gnusto-frotz-tops20; as long as you have a
Perl 5 interpreter, sed, and git, it will check out the "unix" branch
above and transmogrify the sources into a form that TOPS-20 is happy
with.

Once you have those, get them onto your PDP-10 (for example, with FTP in
text mode), and then just:

cc -o frotz *.c

Then you can (from that directory):

frotz <directory>zcode-game.z3

(or z5, or z8; most of the actual Infocom games newly available at
https://github.com/historicalsource have the .zip extension)

My future plan is to add support for a VT-100 (or successor) terminal to
Frotz, which would give us an interface equivalent to any of the
(non-graphical) Infocom micro interpreters, and maybe to port a more
modern version of Frotz, although that will take de-C99ing it and
making it build without make.

Adam

[Happy MAC XL]

Post by Adam Thornton
I now have a working port of dumb-frotz 2.32r1 to TOPS-20 on the PDP-10.
The sources that will work with KCC on TOPS-20 (included as part of the
https://github.com/athornton/tops20-frotz
The modified sources (to make Frotz 36-bit clean) are in the "unix"
branch.
Alternatively, you can get the "gnusto-frotz-tops20" sources from
https://github.com/athornton/gnusto-frotz-tops20; as long as you have a
Perl 5 interpreter, sed, and git, it will check out the "unix" branch
above and transmogrify the sources into a form that TOPS-20 is happy
with.
Once you have those, get them onto your PDP-10 (for example, with FTP in
cc -o frotz *.c
frotz <directory>zcode-game.z3
(or z5, or z8; most of the actual Infocom games newly available at
https://github.com/historicalsource have the .zip extension)
My future plan is to add support for a VT-100 (or successor) terminal to
Frotz, which would give us an interface equivalent to any of the
(non-graphical) Infocom micro interpreters, and maybe to port a more
modern version of Frotz, although that will take de-C99ing it and
making it build without make.
Adam

Hey Adam,

Are you on Facebook? Would be cool to get you in our ZIL group there, there are guys (and girls!) working on similar porting projects.

Cheers

Adam (I haven't written that twice for fun, my name is Adam)

[Adam Thornton]

Post by Happy MAC XL
Hey Adam,
Are you on Facebook? Would be cool to get you in our ZIL group there,
there are guys (and girls!) working on similar porting projects.

I am not on Facebook.

If you have github or gitlab repos I'm happy to poke around there and
open issues and stuff.

Adam