Subject: Re: old game
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@research.att.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@umbar.vaxpower.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/04/2001 12:13:55
try running it on cmuccvax.vaxpower.org
guest account is guest/guest
its a KA650 running tahoe. 
happy hacking!
isildur

netbsd can run reno binaries, but you need a: the reno compatibility
turned on in the kernel and b: do somehting about the magic numbers, since
netbsd doesnt dig the 4.3 magic numbers. 

isildur

On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Chuck Cranor wrote:

> 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?