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Re: Running ADV (advent.tap) on T10

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David Todd <HDTodd@gmail.com> writes:

> You would need FORTRAN V6 or FORTRAN V7 for TOPS-10 in order to get it
> running.  I don't recall seeing either of those on the Trailing-Edge
> archive, but you might want to look there.
This is the version I ended up with:
https://github.com/kristopherjohnson/advent

That will build/run on T10 7.04.

.dir gam: 
                                                          
                             
ADVENT  FOR   133  <123>    8-Jan-99    DSKB:   [5,30]
ADVENT  DAT    90  <123>    8-Jan-99
ADVENT  MIC     1  <123>    8-Jan-99
ADVENT  EXE   116  <123>    8-Jan-99
ADVENT  REL   187  <123>    8-Jan-99
  Total of 527 blocks in 5 files on DSKB: [5,30]

.r setsrc
*cp [5,30]
*^Z
EXIT

.run advent

Initializing...
Table space used:
  9612 OF   9650 words of messages
   742 OF    750 travel options
   296 OF    300 vocabulary words
   140 OF    150 locations
    53 OF    100 objects
    31 OF     35 action verbs
   201 OF    205 RTEXT messages
    10 OF     12 CLASS messages
     9 OF     20 hints
    32 OF     35 MAGIC messages

PAUSE
INIT Done 
Type G to Continue, X to Exit, T To Trace.
*x
CPU time 0.24   Elapsed time 6:14.02
EXIT

> I have Will Crowther's Adventure running on MRC's TOPS-20 Panda.  I
> think that's the one you downloaded (link above).
Looks like there's a version already there:
@dir fun:    
                             
   TOPS20:<GAMES>
 ADVENT.EXE.2    <-- probably the one we're talking about
 BKG.EXE.1 
 BYE.IDX.1    
   .LNS.1       
 CAVE.EXE.1      <-- the one I played last (diff game?)
 ...

That last one, cave.exe, is a bit different. It can output a map of
where you've been. We were trying to get it to print on the XGP on ITS
awhile back.

> Trying to compile that code with the Panda FORTRAN (V11) failed with
> an internal compiler error (for no apparent reason based on source
> code).
Same on TOPS-10. 

> Download the BB-4157F-BM_1983 tape and unzip it
> Build a ps:<fortran> directory
> Edit your klt20.ini file to mount that tape as mta0
> Boot your DEC20
Changing tapes is possible without restart. I posted an example under
the "Discussions" tab on your github guide.

> This also prompted me to look up Crowther
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crowther_(programmer) ), and
> that's worth reading, too.  Interesting guy.
Ah, BBN. It's funny that I never heard of them until I got into the DEC
systems. You see, I'm going the other way: I start on micros with the
Microsoft systems and moved backwards to VAX and then the PDP-10. I've
never seen the real systems outside of a green-screen (VT220?) in the CS
lab. At the time, my high school had a program with the local community
college to give credits toward college. Since I had already taken on to
learn much of the 80286 under DOS, I signed up for a course in assembly
thinking I had a head start. It ended up being on the VAX - a CPU
architecture I never heard of on an operating system I didn't know
existed.

If you are on IRC you should come to Libera, at #pdp-10

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