Infocom on PDP-11

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 9 May 2005, Christian Corti wrote:

> Porting a Z-Code interpreter to a new machine is a nice exercise. In my
> case I ported the Infocom interpreter from the InfoTaskforce (written in
> C) to the IBM 5110 (yes, the 5110, not the 5150) in machine language (yes,
> you can program that beast in machine language, it has a very nice
> instruction set IMHO). The binary's size is only 9.5kB and will run any V3
> games. It includes save/restore, a paging mechanism for fetching needed
> non-resident code parts from disk (and throwing out LRU ones), line
> wrapping / 'more'-style pausing for the 64x16 display etc.
> The interpreter requires at least one 5114 disk drive and 16kB of RWS. If
> more RWS is available, less page swapping is needed during the game.

Totally cool!  Was this just for fun or did Infocom suspect a 5100 series
market and hire you to do it? :)

> Anyone interested in playing Zork on an IBM 5110 ?

For certain.  I just need to find a 5110 first :/

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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