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From: play@turing.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: Hack on a PDP-11/44
Message-ID: <248@turing.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 08:52:25 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 31 08:52:25 1985
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In article <552@ukma.UUCP> edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>Has anyone successfully brought up hack on a PDP-11/44?
>A first glance it seems like hack is way too big. Is
>it worth my time to try to squeeze in on?
It is not impossible; I have had a 11/44 version long ago. You'll have
to start by throwing out vaults&guards, options, news, help, engravings,
tracking properties of monsters, the choice of character at the beginning
of the game, the tombstone, the camera, the scroll of punishment and all
references to ball and chain, the icebox, the whistles and magic whistles,
the commands 'a','o','=',')','[','/','\\','?'; if that is not enough (and
it won't be) throw away all mention of gems, the special treatment of
unicorns, the long worms (in the lincolnsudbury version 'w' was a wumpus -
restore that situation), the wand of wishing together with the routines
that parse a typed in object name, the wizard mode, the ring of warning.
Throw away the routine docorner, and let inventories be given one item a
time at the topline. Trim down the routines in topl.c. Omit the possibility
to ask for repetition of recent messages.
By now it should almost fit, and throwing away a few other small things
you should be able to make it work. It is a lot of work.
By the way, if I remember correctly (but this might have been on an 11/45)
it is not enough to have the program down to precisely 64K, because some
bug in loader or kernel will still prevent it from running. It should be
64K minus 64 bytes.