As documented in the "main" R136 repo, R136 is a text adventure game that was written for MS-DOS in the second half of the 1990s.
When the friend I developed the game with found the source code on an old backup drive a few years back, I took a look at the original procedural C++ version of the game and I basically immediately gave up on that version of it. That's because it won't build or run on modern versions of Windows, I threw out my last MS-DOS compatible machine many years ago, and I don't like the idea of developing in and for VMs or emulators only.
Instead, I ported the old code to a "modern" C++ version that's in the aforementioned repo, and a .NET version that can be found here. (You're saying I went overboard with this? I agree! But I had a lot of fun, and nobody was injured. Wait, it gets better!)
After "unexpectedly" improving the original MS-DOS version of the game (the result of which can be found in its own repo), I was recently gifted a PiDP-11 by a close friend who also happens to own a number of real PDP-11 machines. After he casually mentioned curses is available for that machine, backporting the original MS-DOS version to 2.11BSD on the PDP-11 became inevitable.
"Discovering the object of the game is the object of the game."
Clone the repo to your local PDP-11 running 2.11BSD.
On the PDP-11, make sure you're running the (t)csh shell, and execute the following command from the project directory:
./build.cshThis will compile the game and support tooling, generate the required data files and create a neat tarball that contains the game and the data files that you can distribute to all your PDP-11 owning friends!
After building, the game can be run by issuing the following command from the project directory:
./r136For historical reasons, the game defaults to the Dutch language. If you get stuck in that state, Ctrl-C will save you. You can run the following command to get help on how to run the game in English, instead:
./r136 -hEnjoy!
- Rutger van Bergen - github.com/rbergen