We talked about Zork yesterday, and how the code for interpreters for the game was found and published on Github. Today we have a blog post detailing how to actually use one of these interpreters, the one for the PDP-11.
Ok so what or where to do this?! First you need SIMH or any other good PDP-11 emulator, a copy of RT-11, and of course the source to the interpreter oddly enough named PDP11.ZIP. Just keep in mind that this is NOT a pk-zip file, it’s a text file. It’s Macro-11 assembler source.
And it goes on from there. This is using an emulator, but if you’re lucky enough to have a real PDP-11 you can probably get all of this running, too.
Funnily enough, i bought a PDP-11 for two reasons, neither of them have i succeeded at.
1) Run UNIX on it
2) Run Zork on it.
Sounds like i have a weekend project
I’ve only got experience emulated, but itd be interesting to see if you got RT-11 booting?! I guess if you are able to make disks, then prepping them on SIMH and copying them over ought to be easy enough? I have zero real world knowledge though, and it took me a few hours to get the ZIP interpreter running. But I’m such a n00b.
“Assembler source”, bruh assembly.