FW: Build a Zork Teletype Machine - YouTube

[Bernie Hoefer]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 2015-08-13 06:29 EST, Brown, David (Test Dept) wrote:
===
> Classic! Another triumph for Linux!
> 
> WATCH - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3cAug7MNZWg
===
     Thanks for sharing, David.  I've played Zork (loved it!) but never
on a teletype!  I found it interesting that the guy in the video had to
create his own circuit to convert the RS232 signals to teletype signals.
 I also found it interesting he bought the teletype on Craigslist for
$150...  and sad thinking of all the trees that gave their lives for the
creation of the output paper upon which Zork was created, debugged and
played.  :-)

===
> I remember playing on one of these in elementary school.
===
     My first adventures into Zork, Zork II and Zork III were on a
Commodore 64.  I later played _Beyond Zork_ on a 286 and _Zork Nemesis_
on a Pentium III.  Although I think I have _Zork Zero_ and _Zork Grand
Inquisitor_ in the closet, I never found the time to play them.
Something to do in retirement, I guess...  :-)

===
> By the time I got to high school, we had Apple][s, and in college
> I could connect a Zenith 8088 with a 300 baud acoustic coupler
> modem to a CDC mainframe for programming, or to my Dad's PLATO
> system at CDC to have my first multi-user gaming experience in 1978
> on a game called Moria.
===
     Sounds like good times!

- -- 
Bernie Hoefer
PGP e-mail is welcome!  Get my 1024 bit signature key from:
<http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x446A6F93>.
"The more I know, the more I realize how much I do not understand."

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1

iEYEARECAAYFAlXRdCwACgkQckGmqURqb5P94gCfdg+kJXE0/kN3aYG8mEpZLGsQ
DMwAoIkK1d7lh3lu74KVBX6t/JHO6GPk
=RcUr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----