DECUS tapes RSTS-11-13 and RSTS-11-14 (contributed by of course David H Ahl) contain many 1973 versions of the games that made it into the original BASIC Computer Games book.
http://pdp-11.trailing-edge.com/rsts11/ I've never done a one-to-one mapping of all the games but I don't think they're an exact map to the ones that appeared in the book. Interesting note about the history of this entry: the DECtape I read these from, was obviously assembled from the paper tapes, as several of the games were exactly reversed (end-to-end) because the paper tape had been sent through the reader backwards. Tim. On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 8:39 AM Tony Nicholson <tony.nichol...@computer.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:46 AM Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I’m curious as to the provenance of >> the tape. Where’d you find it and do you know when it’s from? >> > > The original (corrupted) Dectape image is at > > > http://www.bitsavers.org/bits/DEC/pdp11/dectape/rsts/SeattlePacificCollege/158_ahl_basic_games.dta.gz > > Since RSTS (and RSTS/E) natively access files from DECtape in DOS-11 > format only - I found the home block was offset in the image file (If I > recall it was not on a block boundary). A snip of these superfluous bytes > made it readable. The location of the original file suggests it came from > Seattle Pacific College. Someone at bitsavers (Al Kossow) may know more > about the DECtape's provenance. > > Tony > > On Jan 23, 2018, at 6:00 PM, Tony Nicholson <tony.nichol...@computer.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 11:37 PM, Bryan Davies <bryan.e.dav...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> I just need to get it all in a nice neat box, connect up he VT100, and >>> download some games and things for the guests to use. >>> >>> >> Bryan (and all). >> >> I first encountered RSTS/E in 1975 on a PDP-11/45 when I was a student >> when I discovered a book "101 Basic Computer Games" with an accompanying >> DECtape. >> >> Recently I tracked down a copy of the book in PDF format and an image of >> the DECtape (that had to be fixed-up so that it was readable) on bitsavers . >> >> The book is at - >> >> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/_Books/101_BASIC_Computer_Games_Mar75.pdf >> >> I now have this running on RSTS/E V10.1 and RSTS V06C-03 under SIMH - >> after some minor edits to fix changes to the Basic-Plus source file syntax >> (spaces between keywords etc). >> >> I've zipped-up the fixed DECtape image (DOS format) and an RL01 RSTS >> level 1.2 format disk image (label=GAMES) that you can copy the games from >> either and run them! >> >> The RL01 disk image is easiest (since DECtape support requires some >> fiddling and correct pdp11 unibus 18-bit model selection). >> >> In your SIMH .ini file (assuming you have sysgen'ed some RL type disks) >> you can - >> set rl enable >> set rl0 rl01 >> att rl0 rl01-games.dsk >> >> Then once RSTS/E is up as a privileged user just "MOUNT DL0: GAMES" and >> look in DL0:[100,100] >> >> The zip file is >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IgZkafQABxWUXeuEkeq1GjkBe3sF2Zgx/view?usp=sharing >> >> Tony >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> Simh@trailing-edge.com >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> >> > > -- > Tony Nicholson <tony.nichol...@computer.org> > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
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