[Info-vax] ADVENTURE (colossal cave adventure) on OpenVMS x86

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 09:40:02 EST 2020


On Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 8:12:29 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2020-12-08, John Reagan <xyzz... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > We now have ADVENTURE working on x86. Here's the output from the beginning and the end. I skipped the steps in the middle. Find your own way out of the cave. 
> >
> Nice. :-) 
> 
> The one game I wish was still around is Warp which ran on MPE. 
> 
> BTW, seeing VAX/VMS mentioned reminded me: how are you doing with 
> the image translator so that images from older architectures can 
> run on x86-64 ? 
> 
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
I think the last thing Clair said was that we did an early prototype for Alpha to x86 using LLVM's JIT but it has been put back on the shelf so we can focus on the rest of the port and getting native compilers available.  Of course, I suspect when you say "older", you mean VAX/VMS images?)



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