Monthly Archives: January 2022

Was working in a directory and to my surprise I got a disk full error. After a few moments I remembered Filelight. I very nice GUI app that lets you drill down to locate disk space hogs. However in this case I thought a command line tool might be faster/better. So went googling (used as …

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Very interesting “Dave’s Garage” Youtube video of how Microsofts Basic owes it’s beginnings to a 8008 simulator written by Paul Allen on the IBM 360. The whole video is interesting.

Until today, the last time I played Star Trek on a PDP 11, I was a young guy with my whole life ahead of me, taking computer classes and working in the mainframe and mini computer lab. And both of my beloved parents were alive. I owe a big thanks to the provider of this …

Continue reading “Finally Star Trek on a PDP/11 running RSTS/E!”

I opened an issue on github about not being able to mount the game disk on RSTS/E V07. The Owner kindly responded same day that there was a problem and he fixed it. I just saw his response.

I’m getting a “?PROCESS ERROR IN MOUNT – ?Protection violation” with the game disk when I try and mount it. It’s attached as rl0 (to be mounted as dl0) I downloaded for the PDP-11 under the simh emulator. Just a note…those lowercase l’s kinda look like ones…so it’s RL0 & DL0. The disk said it …

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Dave Ahl’s 101 BASIC computer games, Here.

Yep…that’s what I did!

You no doubt lose some of the early excitement of playing on old slower hardware. For example, as seen below, I’ve fired a TORPEDO and destroyed the KLINGON below me. On old hardware the “TRACKING TORPEDO…” messages would print dramatically line by line. But on newer hardware (anything in the last 20 years), everything appears …

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I notice that there maybe some navigation issues with my port to FreeBasic…Quick Basic. So the QB64 debug feature may be quite helpful. The YouTube video “QB64 v2.0 is now out!” has a pretty useful tutorial!

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