Sorry, that was a couple of jobs ago. Wish I'd made a copy before I left. We also had a text-based version of Star Trek that ran on CICS. It was actually kind of boring so I eventually ended up blowing up the starbases.
Robert Crawford Abstract Evolutions LLC (210) 913-3822 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Wednesday, July 5, 2023 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: z/OSMF Hi Robert, Is the source code available? If yes, how does one get it? Thanks and regards, David On 2023-07-05 09:17, Crawford Robert C (Contractor) wrote: > 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 <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Pew, Curtis G > Sent: Monday, July 3, 2023 1:43 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [EXT] Re: z/OSMF > > On Jul 3, 2023, at 1:26 PM, Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> 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 > curtis....@austin.utexas.edu > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
