By: Jimmy Maher
I’m afraid your guess is as good as mine on the creation dates of these things. We got lucky with The Oregon Trail in that it had the date inside an REM statement at the beginning of the listing. I...
View ArticleBy: Jason Dyer
Doing that. Still 404ed. Also can’t get to the main Filfre site (with your interpreter).
View ArticleBy: Jimmy Maher
Okay, sorry. I think I fixed it now. Today’s lesson: relative links in WordPress posts cause all kinds of problems.
View ArticleBy: Bob Brown
I will try to get a date for castle (castle.b300). My friend wrote it…I think early 80′s sometime. (I am still in contact with the author).
View ArticleBy: Frank Sapone
Hey, I love the series. But, I am wondering what school did the tape come from in York, PA? I live pretty close to York, PA and my father grew up there in the 70s. Frank
View ArticleBy: Jimmy Maher
This would have been a time-sharing machine, meaning it was likely installed in a central location — perhaps a district office or the like — and served the whole district, who would have connected via...
View ArticleBy: Frank Sapone
Do you have any more information on where it came from? I’d like to visit the actual school and see if they’d let me see the tape, and answer some questions of my own. I’m pretty surprised that York,...
View ArticleBy: Jimmy Maher
It was actually the folks from the HP2000 Yahoo group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hp2000family/) that dug up the tape image for me. Best thing to do would be to inquire there. They’re all very...
View ArticleBy: Kari Kraus
What’s fascinating to me–I mentioned this on Twitter the other day–is that the 1975 and 1978 versions of the source code don’t include dysentery as a potential cause of death. The game’s most iconic...
View ArticleBy: Jimmy Maher
The URL was just changed. I’ve updated the post with the new one. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
View ArticleBy: Chris
I was able to telnet to mickey.publicvm.com, but when I enter the HEL-T001,HP2000,1, I get the message “NO TIME LEFT” and then it just hangs. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance! p.s. I really enjoy...
View ArticleBy: Jimmy Maher
I wrote to Bob Brown at my last email address for him. Will let you know here if and when I hear back.
View ArticleBy: Chris Torrence
Thanks Jimmy! It works great now. It was a real nail biter, but my family made it safely to Oregon City. Whew! :-) BTW, I have a printout of an Oregon Trail game from around 1981, from a DEC line...
View ArticleBy: Stephen
Any chance the link has changed again? I just tried to connect via Telnet and it keeps timing out.
View ArticleBy: Jimmy Maher
It seems there was a fire at Bob’s house. He’s fine, but Mickey, alas, wasn’t so lucky. He said he hopes to have it up from his rental house in a few days.
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