Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No, I meant 1970. It was one of the first games that ran on the computer >centers TSO system. (It >seems like it had another name before it was called TSO but I don't remember >it.) Startrek and >Football were the others. They all appeared about 1969. I don't remember which >was first. Adventure >was written in PL/I and Startrek was in Fortran. Football was in another >language. (Cobol? or Basic?
I think FOOTBALL was in BASIC. The early ADVENT that I played on VM/370 back at UofW was in FORTRAN, not PL/I. What I remember from STARTREK but haven't been able to verify is "Your ship has blown up! The vile Klingon hordes will conquer the universe." Anyone? ObAnecdote: I got my start programming when I discovered that SUMER (aka Hammurabi) was written in BASIC (not that I knew what BASIC was). It only played for two "years" (cycles) and I wanted to play longer, so I hacked it. No manual, no idea wtf I was doing, just played with it. The start of a long descent... ...phsiii
