Subject: old game
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Chuck Cranor <chuck@research.att.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/04/2001 12:09:48
hi-

    if you read the following URLs:

	http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Mainframe_adventures.html#HAUNT
	http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/laird/haunt.html

you'll note that they describe a text based adventure-like game called HAUNT.
the pages claim that the game only ran on DEC-10/20's and is basically lost.


it so happens that i have in my archive the following file:

	http://www.netbsd.org/~chuck/haunt.image.gz

i believe this is a VAX version of the game done by a Patrick Greussay
around 1984 at Institut d'Intelligence Artificielle Departement 
d'Informatique, Universite-Paris-8.  i remember running this program on 
a 4.2/4.3BSD VAX system (or maybe Ultrix?  i'm not 100% sure).  the 
binary is an NMAGIC.

what i'm wondering is if NetBSD/VAX is up to the task of running
this old binary.  unfortunately, i do not have a VAX to fool around
with it.  chuck silvers tried it, but got ENOEXEC.  maybe someone here 
can get it going?


chuck