In the early 80's we had an adventure game written in PL/1. It was largely table driven so I added a room full of Texas Aggies. To retrieve the "treasure," an Aggie Joke book, you had to find a bar of soap and throw it into the room at which point the Aggies would run out of the room enabling you to get the book.
For the record, I am a Texas Aggie and I understand that the joke will be lost on 49/50ths of the US. Robert Crawford Abstract Evolutions LLC (210) 913-3822 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 1:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXT] Re: z/OSMF On Jul 3, 2023, at 1:26 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: I was thinking of the old text Adventure written in FORTRAN. You’re talking about the same game. The full name was “Colossal Cave Adventure”, but the program file name was usually as many characters of “ADVENTURE” as the system supported. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure Forty years ago I knew how to make it all the way through, but that knowledge is now lost in the mists of time for me. -- Curtis Pew ITS Campus Solutions [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
