There were about a half dozen different messages that would come up when you lost at Star Trek depending on how you lost.
There was a compiled version that was on VM/370 that I believe was written in Fortran (there was a bug that would occasionally read its head). There was also a 200 line BASIC version that came out in a magazine back in 75. A friend of mine and I at Baylor took it and turned it into about 1000 lines of code with many enhancements. I think I still have the STARTREK MODULE on a 3480 cartridge in a box. May even have the BASIC source to my version. ADVENTURE is also possibly on it. I just don't happen to have a tape drive nearby that can read the tapes (I have two, a collection of things over the years). Bob Bates Enterprise Hosting Services - Enterprise Virtualization - z/VM and z/Linux w. (469)892-6660 c. (214) 907-5071 "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:12 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Seeking (former) Adventurers 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
