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- From: 9064pierzina@vms.csd.mu.edu (Todd Pierzina)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.games
- Subject: Get your VMS games!
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- Date: 17 Dec 91 16:20:48 GMT
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- I've been working in a VMS "shop" for awhile now, and have collected
- several games over the years. I don't have source to the following, but
- I've put the executables up for anonymous ftp. They are tarred and
- compressed VMS files, so you may have trouble if you cannot handle the
- format at your site. Transfer the files in binary mode; I used the
- DEC/Shell utility to tar, and GCOMPRESS to compress.
-
- FTP from ftp.csd.mu.edu, in the directory pub/tpp. Here's a description
- of the games I've posted:
-
- doom.tar_Z: Doomsday 2000, a futuristic adventure game, seems to
- have been written specifically for the VAX. More
- difficult than Moria, with some nice features.
-
- misc.tar_Z: Two Star Treks and Othello.
-
- vmoria.tar_Z: Moria 4.80, from the Pascal sources I believe. From
- what I've read on the history of Moria, this is the most
- stable and bug-free version. You may want to avoid
- using search mode, since there _may_ be a bug in that.
- If you've never played Moria, you're gonna love it!
-
- zork.tar_Z: Dungeon, the mainframe predecessor of Infocom's Zork.
- Actually, both Zork I and II came from this game,
- although II had more added to it.
-
- I've never had any problems with viruses or security considerations, but
- then again I have only minimal priveleges. Actually, I'm pretty sure
- Moria is safe, since lots of folks with privs played the version I had
- set up.
-
- I have another version of Moria (UMoria, from Jim Wilson @ Berkeley) for
- which I have the C source. It's written for Unix machines, and I ported
- a late beta version to VMS, added several features, and fixed some bugs.
- We like it betetr than vmoria above, since it has some nice features.
- As soon as I get the sources from archive, I'll post. If someone could
- send me the DCL_SHAR utility, I'd be grateful, otherwise I'll have to
- track it down.
-
-
- Todd Pierzina 9064pierzina@vmsd.csd.mu.edu
- Student Programmer robertf@marque.mu.edu
- Marquette University pierzi@compsys.mu.edu
- [Looking through old issues of Readers' Digest for a cute saying]
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