In a message dated 7/8/2006 9:40:20 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While z/VM isn't explicitly mentioned in the blog entry, I do suspect that the Linux images the gamers are using are VM hosted. Who was it that first ran StarTrek on VM or TSO? I guess they were really ahead of their time. :-) >> Old post from Darren.... Years ago, there was a star trek game called TREK that made its way onto our Univac 1100 mainframe. This was early 80's. It was very popular ...lines deleted.... Years later (2002), I got a wild hair to rewrite this thing using C++, object-oriented programming, and sockets. Had to bring back all that 360 assembly language knowledge. Works pretty good. Its about 98% finished. ...lines deleted.... version of the compiler, I can take it out of Beta. Anyhow, if you care to try it: telnet uranus.ua.edu 1111 answer the initial questions, then at the command prompt, type 0 for help. Its got a little bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, its no problem. I still prefer the version I had that run under VM. >> Haven't tried it since a long time ago...maybe Darren can update us??? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
