I worked in ISC Brazil for 6 years and stay at office some nights playing this game. Was a fever in IBM late 70's early 80's. Believe or not I have a copy of it running today under VM/ESA 2.4.0 and working....
Carlos Alberto Bodra S/390 System Programmer Sao Paulo - Brazil -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Mainframe STAR TREK games? When i was a undergrad at Ohio State (1975-76) (Baker Hall, anyone?), i was able to snag source to a (what is now) a really old one - it was written in Fortran!! - it played on a 8x8 quadrant, with each quadrant with 8x8 sectors ... the enterprise was ++E, the regular klingons were ++K,, the cruisers were ++C, starbases were <B> .. this was all played ++on a teletype -no CRT screens for us freshmen ... (the program did not like you if you aimed your photon torpedopes at your own starbase) - if you got destroyed, you were issued another ship, the USS Faerie Queene (++Q) - it was great fun (for the day) - .. i transcribed it to basic for my apple ][+ (with a Z/80 card) and compiled it... Those were the days ..... Chris Hoelscher IDMS & DB2 Database Administrator Humana Inc 502-580-2538 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
