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Zork on the PDP-10

1 2021-03-22 13:00

A while ago, MIT released the source code of Zork. It's written in MDL which is a dialect of Lisp developed by the Sussman before he started working on Scheme.

https://github.com/MITDDC/zork
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)
https://medium.com/swlh/zork-the-great-inner-workings-b68012952bdc

Running it on a PDP-10 emulator is relatively easy. Make sure you have expect, libncurses and libcap installed.

$ git clone https://github.com/PDP-10/its
$ cd its
$ make EMULATOR=simh
$ ./start

You'll be greated by a terse "DSKDMP". Type its, ESC-G then ^Z and :zork

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:LOGIN ANON
^R
ANON; ..NEW. (UDIR)

This will create a user "ANON" and its home directory. You can also create a full MIT user with :INQUIR

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