ITS on simh PDP10 emulator.

[TIML]

Hi, I have a question.

I've happily installed ITS on a simh PDP10 emulator.

This is just using the minimal system tape minsys.tape

Question is how do I get other programs into the simulator?

I'd like to run for example TECO or even EMACS (which I can run elsewhere successfully!!!), but they don't seem to be present in the files given.

Any ideas how to do this other than connecting to a network?

I'm running ITS on both Fedora & Windoze! Any other fans around?


.T.I.M

[erd]

Hi, I have a question.

I've happily installed ITS on a simh PDP10 emulator.


Cool!


Any ideas how to do this other than connecting to a network?


Nope... My initial idea was ftp. If you had emacs working, you could write/aquire a uudecode-type program and feed things down as text files. I suppose you could get/make a MACRO program to do the same, but I'd have no idea where to start; the -10 architecture was before my time (my first big DEC machine was an 11/750).


I'm running ITS on both Fedora & Windoze! Any other fans around?


I'm a fan! (of 36-bits, not Windoze) :)

How large is your virtual disk file? Any chance of sharing it?

My personal goal is to get some version of Zork working on an emulated 36-bit machine (since I wasn't able to get any real 36-bit hardware while I worked at CompuServe :( ) I used to have an account on a machine at XKL, but when they changed sysadmins, I got locked out.

-ethan

[TIML]

Hi!

>> I've happily installed ITS on a simh PDP10 emulator.
> Cool!

It is! Have you tried simh? I recommend it!

> Nope... My initial idea was ftp. If you had emacs working, you could
> write/aquire a uudecode-type program and feed things down as text
> files. I suppose you could get/make a MACRO program to do the same,
> but I'd have no idea where to start; the -10 architecture was before my > time (my first big DEC machine was an 11/750).

And to make it weirder, its on an emulator!

> I'm a fan! (of 36-bits, not Windoze)
Me too, 36 bits is so natural!!

> How large is your virtual disk file? Any chance of sharing it?
I'll have to check. Sharing, I don't think this is possible the way it is.

> My personal goal is to get some version of Zork working on an emulated > 36-bit machine (since I wasn't able to get any real 36-bit hardware while > I worked at CompuServe ) I used to have an account on a machine at
> XKL, but when they changed sysadmins, I got locked out.

Hey! I used to be a compu$erve addict, in about 1992.

Have you tried zork on the wdoze?

Long live proper textual games!

.T.I.M

[erd]

Hi!
Have you tried simh? I recommend it!


I've helped Bob Supnik debug the RP controller code to let 2BSD to boot. I'm familiar with simh.

Have you tried zork on the wdoze?

That's not the point... I'm the guy that ported the MDL code to Inform so that the original code runs on the Z-Machine. What I need is an environment that I can run the old code in to compare how it runs vs how mine runs. I still have a couple bugs to stomp that exist, in part, because I haven't had a proper environment to verify the behavior of my code against.

Even when I had an account on a 36-bit machine, the binary version of Zork was old enough that a number of the puzzles were missing. Makes it hard to check things.

-ethan