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Adam Sampson
c836707a70 Reconstructed source for JOTTO.
Differences from the WAITS code:

- Converted back to MIDAS syntax.

- Reconstructed the ITS I/O code. Like WUMPUS, this originally opened
  the TTY with the 20 flag set to convert input to uppercase, and was
  later binary-patched to do the conversion itself (and convert output
  to lowercase). The program had a PATCH area originally, so I've
  included the patches in the source.

- The ITS version BLTs the jot-counting code into the registers and runs
  it from there. The WAITS version has the BLT commented out and just
  runs it from the BLTLOC buffer directly.

The TS JOTTO binary on AI/MC (dated 1990-08-14, although it's probably
much older than that) has been dumped after loading the dictionary. When
re-entered at BEG0, the original code asks for a DECtape number to read
the dictionary from, and constructs a UTx device name based on that in
UTNAME. However, in TS JOTTO, UTNAME contains DSK, so it must have been
dumped by patching that device name in directly; I've reproduced this in
build.tcl.

After the dump process, this produces a binary identical to TS JOTTO
except for the contents of the game variables. For the record, when
MC's version was last played before dumping, the computer chose the word
PETAL.

Fixes #789.
2018-04-08 19:37:35 +01:00
Lars Brinkhoff
322f414d8e Update information about chess programs. 2018-04-06 21:49:41 +02:00
Adam Sampson
dc35210e66 Add FACTOR to list of programs. 2018-04-01 16:20:28 -07:00
Lars Brinkhoff
9c7c40e19a CHAOS ARPA/NCP/TCP - gateway from Chaosnet to Arpanet/Internet. 2018-03-27 07:05:40 -07:00
Lars Brinkhoff
26e77a8317 SRDATE - set file reference date. 2018-03-27 07:02:07 -07:00
Lars Brinkhoff
0c4bc45cda Update RABBIT, and compile it with itself.
RABBIT 570 has a (DECLARE (NEWIO T)) form which doesn't go over well
with the latest Maclisp compiler.  The fix is to just delete the
declaration.
2018-03-26 12:36:28 -07:00
Adam Sampson
7d42c5b2f9 Reconstructed source for WUMPUS.
AI:SYS1;TS WUMPUS was last modified 1977-04-12 18:16. It's closely
related to SRI-NIC's version, but it's unclear which is newer, or
whether they both derive from a common source.

This assembles into a binary that's identical to TS WUMPUS, except for
jumps from GETLF and MOVE2 to two binary patches at 50 and 55 which make
input case-insensitive.

(Note that EXPL ends with a bare \r, which is encoded as \356 here for
itstar's benefit.)

Fixes #108.
2018-03-26 14:09:13 +01:00
Lars Brinkhoff
ca33ba837f Add Scheme interpreter to README. 2018-03-25 07:50:24 +02:00
Lars Brinkhoff
77bfb4e37f Move build procedure and program list to separate files.
Add a smaller list of major applications.
2018-03-24 07:42:08 -07:00