jjj@blob.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) (10/31/90)
Still remember Ladder, the famous CP/M game? Has anybody ported this to work under MSDOS? Yes, I know it's possible to run ladder under CP/M-emulators, but for certain reasons this is out of questions. PS. I am still looking for a copy of ADVENTURE which would work under MSDOS?! -- jjj@niksula.hut.fi jjj@otax.tky.hut.fi fire me, fire until you die
magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson) (11/01/90)
In article <1990Oct31.142756.1650@santra.uucp> jjj@niksula.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) writes: >PS. I am still looking for a copy of ADVENTURE which would work under >MSDOS?! About a month ago, I compiled the "enhanced" version of Adventure (the original Colossal cave game + several new puzzles, such as the elves' castle) that was posted on comp.sources.games earlier this year. If people are interested, I could make it available with anonymous FTP. Magnus Olsson | \e+ /_ Dept. of Theoretical Physics | \ Z / q University of Lund, Sweden | >----< Internet: magnus@thep.lu.se | / \===== g Bitnet: THEPMO@SELDC52 | /e- \q
mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (11/01/90)
In article <0093F039.C010E040@router.jhuapl.edu> tcs@router.jhuapl.edu writes: >In article <1990Oct31.142756.1650@santra.uucp>, jjj@blob.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) writes: >> >>Still remember Ladder, the famous CP/M game? >> >>Has anybody ported this to work under MSDOS? >> >>Yes, I know it's possible to run ladder under CP/M-emulators, but for >>certain reasons this is out of questions. >> >> >>PS. I am still looking for a copy of ADVENTURE which would work under >>MSDOS?! >> >>-- >>jjj@niksula.hut.fi >>jjj@otax.tky.hut.fi >> >>fire me, fire until you die > >I have an old copy of Adventure that works on MS-Dos. I don't know if this >is the one you are looking for, though. It seems to be quite small and >looks like a pre-Zork game. A friend of mine has a larger one, but it's >backed up on tape (paper tape) and he has no way of reading it. > >Carl Schelin | "I wouldn't hurt a fly, >tcs@router.jhuapl.edu | but only because they taste funny." MS-DOS executables for both Adventure and Dungeon are available for ftp from c.scs.uiuc.edu. They are the appropriate .zip files: pcadvent.zip and pcdungeon.zip. Doug McDonald
tcs@router.jhuapl.edu (11/01/90)
In article <1990Oct31.142756.1650@santra.uucp>, jjj@blob.hut.fi (Joni Jaakko J{rvenkyl{) writes: > >Still remember Ladder, the famous CP/M game? > >Has anybody ported this to work under MSDOS? > >Yes, I know it's possible to run ladder under CP/M-emulators, but for >certain reasons this is out of questions. > > >PS. I am still looking for a copy of ADVENTURE which would work under >MSDOS?! > >-- >jjj@niksula.hut.fi >jjj@otax.tky.hut.fi > >fire me, fire until you die I have an old copy of Adventure that works on MS-Dos. I don't know if this is the one you are looking for, though. It seems to be quite small and looks like a pre-Zork game. A friend of mine has a larger one, but it's backed up on tape (paper tape) and he has no way of reading it. Carl Schelin | "I wouldn't hurt a fly, tcs@router.jhuapl.edu | but only because they taste funny."
sm5y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Samuel Antonio Minter) (11/05/90)
2448201.532 Jul > Excerpts from netnews.comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d: 31-Oct-90 LADDER for > MSDOS?? Joni J. J{rvenkyl{@blob. (361) > Still remember Ladder, the famous CP/M game? > Has anybody ported this to work under MSDOS? > Yes, I know it's possible to run ladder under CP/M-emulators, but for > certain reasons this is out of questions. I still have the CP/M version lying around and occationally dust off the Kaypro 2 to play... but I'd really love to get an MS-DOS version. If anyone knows of one please post!! --Abulsme 2448201.533 Jul
jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi (JP Koivisto) (11/16/90)
sm5y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Samuel Antonio Minter) writes: >> Still remember Ladder, the famous CP/M game? >> Has anybody ported this to work under MSDOS? >I still have the CP/M version lying around and occationally dust off the >Kaypro 2 to play... but I'd really love to get an MS-DOS version. If >anyone knows of one please post!! > --Abulsme Weel, I used to work at the computing center of the Technical Univ. of Helsinki (called TeKoLa) here in Finland. We also had a kaypro & LADDER but only ONE, so we made one (the game, I mean :-) from scratch. We made it in PASCAL using ONLY standard features (well, of course we DID have to use a few EXTERNs for video output), so that we got it to work also on the DEC-20 under TOPS-20 using PAX (the Pascal compiler people at TeKoLa had made) as the compiler. The main target then was an Ericsson Step/One PC (it was actually Panasonic somethingorother, an MSDOS machine anyway...) and it worked BEAUTIFULLY (this was 1983, I think)! I think I did quite a few bits of the work, but I ain't sure who did what. Anyway, when I moved down from DEC-20 to PCs (I went to work, instead of hacking at the computing center anymore :-(, I got a IBM compatible and changed a few bit & pieces to get it working on an IBM XT. The compiler was MS-PASCAL (a version BEFORE 3.20 or something like that) and the year was 1984. After that I have given the binaries to anybody who asks, but I've never had time to make any changes (there has also been no need for them...). I think I can still find the source if somebody is interested, but I think it should be converted to C (it ain't big... REALLY). The end result was an ALMOST EXACT copy of (look-and-feel, you know) of the LADDER on Kaypro. We even looked at the screens on Kaypro and used them as a startup screens, but we DID make some new ones as well.. The screens are kept in a TEXT file (like in WANDERER), so making new or changing existing is trivial... jpk - JP Koivisto --- EMail: jpk@davasun.data.nokia.fi PS. I added comp.sources.wanted to 'Newsgroups' as I DO HAVE SOURCE!