Posts by larsbrinkhoff

The wild world of non-C operating systems

Re: REALTIME, baby.

Not MIT Media Lab, but the AI lab.

Perl-clutching hijackers appear to have seized control of 33-year-old programming language's .com domain

Re: The punishment is obvious, once they catch the perp

Hello,

I'm researching the ITS operating system. I'm curious about Zork and/or ITS tape you mentioned some time ago. Would you please contact me?

Best regards,

Lars Brinkhoff

Source code for seminal adventure game Zork circa-1977 exhumed from MIT tapes, plonked on GitHub

Re: Odd? We already had this?

The ITS/TENEX/TOPS-20 MDL interprter is running fine:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/tree/master/src/mudsys

Whoever, the compiler is needed to run the full final version Zork.

Re: Played this when I was a kid..

Zork was ported from MDL to Fortran by Bob Supnik in 1978. I transcribed his Get Lamp interview here:

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/wiki/Zork-escape

Re: Thanks for the pointer, Simon.

Hello,

i'm the one who found the 1977 Zork files, and I'm working on ITS.

I'm curious about your ITS tapes. SHRDLU is one program that still won't run.

Best regards,

Lars Brinkhoff