I wrote a Star Trek game in PL/1 that ran under TSO. That would have been in the 1974-1981 time frame.
I do remember Hammurabi. It was one of the first games I played in 1971, on a Century 100 based, time sharing system. We had many games for an IBM 1130. Somewhere, in the mid 70s, we had SARGON, an assembler chess game on an IBM 3030 type processor. Somewhere, I might still have the source for all of it. But it would be on a Librarian tape master file. I'm not sure that CA-Librarian has the ability to read the tape master files. It may be time to convert all this old stuff, to, at least newer media. Everything is still on round tape. Here, we still have the ability to read and write 800, 1600, and 6250 media.... I also have cases of cards (5 boxes of 2000 cards per case) and loads of paper tape. I can still read/write 8 level paper tape, but I don't have a card reader anymore. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Law of Cat Acceleration A cat will accelerate at a constant rate, until he gets good and ready to stop. >>> Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 6/4/2008 8:11 AM >>> 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
