How I ported Zork to ABAP in one day and made 46-year reunion of two mainframe legends possible.
1979 was quite a year for the mainframe: In Germany, SAP released R/2, the integrated ERP system that would define enterprise computing. In Massachusetts, Infocom was founded to commercialize Zork, the text adventure born on MIT’s PDP-10 mainframes.
For 46 years, they ran on parallel tracks. Until last month.
Microsoft released the original source code for Zork I. The stars aligned. It was time for a family reunion.
I got nostalgic. I wanted to play Zork I: The Great Underground Empire. But I didn’t want to play it in a browser or a terminal. I wanted to play it where I spend my time: In SAP GUI.
So, I decided to port the Z-Machine (Infocom’s Virtual Machine) into SAP S/4HANA.
How I ported Zork to ABAP in one day and made 46-year reunion of two mainframe legends possible.1979 was quite a year for the mainframe: In Germany, SAP released R/2, the integrated ERP system that would define enterprise computing. In Massachusetts, Infocom was founded to commercialize Zork, the text adventure born on MIT’s PDP-10 mainframes.For 46 years, they ran on parallel tracks. Until last month.Microsoft released the original source code for Zork I. The stars aligned. It was time for a family reunion.I got nostalgic. I wanted to play Zork I: The Great Underground Empire. But I didn’t want to play it in a browser or a terminal. I wanted to play it where I spend my time: In SAP GUI.So, I decided to port the Z-Machine (Infocom’s Virtual Machine) into SAP S/4HANA. Read More Technology Blog Posts by Members articles
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