Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-04-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4ff9936e7708d445a1c50e882ea37f7907673a8...@025-namsg-03.025d.mgd.msft.net, on 04/07/2010 at 07:35 AM, Petersen, Jim jim_peter...@homedepot.com said: We had Milton Wylbur at an Air Force Installation I used to work at. I might believe Milten and Wylbur. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-04-07 Thread Petersen, Jim
512-977-2930 fax 210-859-9887 cell phone -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Kington Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure I suspect he may

Re: WYLBUR (was Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure)

2010-03-01 Thread Bill Fairchild
Time to re-Subject this thread tangential to the OP. There were many posts regarding the history of WYLBUR and SUPERWYLBUR a few years ago, some of which were by the same posters (Gerhard, Shmuel, me, e.g.). Check the archives for more gory details of who did what in whose back yard and when.

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b89f3d6.60...@valley.net, on 02/27/2010 at 11:40 PM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said: AFAIK, IBM distributed a type 3 program named RACS (Remote Access Computing System) in the mid sixties; Boston University modified that to develop RAX; and McGill modified it to MUSIC. I

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-27 Thread Ed Gould
From: Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, February 26, 2010 12:01:15 PM Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure On 26 February 2010 00:59, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: I am kind

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b86e013.4030...@ync.net, on 02/25/2010 at 02:39 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: That's true but I've actually seen at least one shop that converted WYLBUR to a TSO Command Processor. NIH Wylbur would run as a TSO command. But that's a far cry from equating a PL/I interface to

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 777310.24922...@web54602.mail.re2.yahoo.com, on 02/25/2010 at 09:59 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com said: I am kind of surprised that I have not seen MUSIC (sp?). I do not remember the history other than I think the University of Toronto (i think they picked up from University Mcgill.

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 995242624f0873419e71e8ce2105c5e5cd0eb2d...@exmail01.scwf.nsc.com, on 02/25/2010 at 03:10 PM, Donnelly, John P john.p.donne...@nsc.com said: ...anybody play with INTERACT? Wasn't that basically SLAC Wylbur? As I recall, OBS bought out the vendor and merged products, then got bought out in

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/27/2010 8:53 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In777310.24922...@web54602.mail.re2.yahoo.com, on 02/25/2010 at 09:59 PM, Ed Gouldps2...@yahoo.com said: I am kind of surprised that I have not seen MUSIC (sp?). I do not remember the history other than I think the University of

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 26 February 2010 00:59, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote:  I am kind of surprised that I have not seen MUSIC (sp?). I do not remember the history other than I think the University of Toronto (i think they picked up from University Mcgill. Not sure at all

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread John Kington
I suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about it. Did anyone use it other than Stanford? WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's when I was learning to program. Much better for an imperfect typist

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
more than zero and less than hundred (boolean logic queries tended to be bimodel out around six or seven tokens, switching from hundreds of thousands to zero). past posts in this thread: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Lloyd Fuller
: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 8:10 AM I suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about it. Did anyone use it other than Stanford? WYLBUR was used

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Phil Smith III
Well, we seem to have totally hijacked this thread, so I'll chime in: UofWaterloo used Wylbur heavily for a long time. When explaining to someone how to do something that involves using an editor to make a change, I still find myself adding nolist occasionally, as in, OK, you need to change x

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread McLaren Phil
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller Sent: 25 February 2010 14:48 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure I used WYLBUR (or maybe SuperWYLBUR) in the late 1970s at a time-sharing company in the Washington DC area. I do not remember the name

Interact, was:Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 19:44 -0500, jack.hamil...@kp.org wrote: I think there was another commercial version called Interact from Online Business Systems Yeah, this comes up every couple of years here. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg45818.html -- David Andrews A.

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Scott Rowe
wrote: From: John Kington john.king...@convergys.com Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 8:10 AM I suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread zMan
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com wrote: Possibly Comnet? Or SkyNet. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of jack.hamil...@kp.org Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure WYLBUR was used by Stanford and SLAC, and by some

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Blaicher, Chris
Mobile: 512-627-3803 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Kington Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure I suspect he may have meant ORVYL

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
: Thursday, February 25, 2010 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of jack.hamil...@kp.org Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Clark Morris
On 25 Feb 2010 05:11:20 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: I suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about it. Did anyone use it other than Stanford? WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of944d7ba7.8f7e3a16-on082576d5.0002c212-082576d5.0003f...@kp.org, on 02/24/2010 at 04:44 PM, jack.hamil...@kp.org said: WYLBUR was used by Stanford and SLAC, and by some other academic institutions. Wylbur was used by a lot of shops, but I'm not aware of anyone else using ORVYL. There's

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Howard Brazee
I get a lot of these editors mixed up now. I have used several. The last one my current shop used was SYSD, we got rid of it because it was the only application we had using CICS, and CICS was expensive for that one application.

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--- suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about it. Did anyone use it other than Stanford? --unsnip We

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- The phrase WYLBUR/TSO confirms my suspicion that someone was very confused; the two are very different animals. ---unsnip That's true but I've actually seen at least one shop that

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- We used WYLBUR (I THINK OBS version) at Westinghouse Lamp Divisions on a 360/65. I had been given to understand that ORVYL (sp.?) was the TP monitor portion of WYLBUR.

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 23b13969513a9846a621a4620543d4f9649086a...@cdcmw12e.na.convergys.com, on 02/25/2010 at 08:10 AM, John Kington john.king...@convergys.com said: WYLBUR was used at University of Cincinnati in the mid 80's when I was learning to program. Much better for an imperfect typist like me than the

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m68do5d0gjn26rqa65p57kh5s29qnqc...@4ax.com, on 02/25/2010 at 12:11 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: We used WYLBUR (I THINK OBS version) at Westinghouse Lamp Divisions on a 360/65. I had been given to understand that ORVYL (sp.?) was the TP monitor portion of WYLBUR. No,

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b864c46.8489.00d...@joann.com, on 02/25/2010 at 10:09 AM, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com said: Possibly Comnet? They used Wylbur on the EPA system, but they used a homegrown system called Alpha on their commercial system. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 351fdc6ace57d14b94beb5529e85df8e9112d0e...@exchmail1.courts.wa.gov, on 02/25/2010 at 08:11 AM, Longnecker, Dennis dennis.longnec...@courts.wa.gov said: I don't know if this is a good thing or not, Does making me jealous make it a bad thing? but we still run SuperWylbur That's good for

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread John Mattson
Now to get silly... For the truely indecisive... it is possible to stand on the corner of Wilbur and Roscoe in Los Angeles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Donnelly, John P
...anybody play with INTERACT? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 11:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread zMan
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.comwrote: Now to get silly... For the truely indecisive... it is possible to stand on the corner of Wilbur and Roscoe in Los Angeles -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread zMan
Well that was coordinated -- a double misfire, hit Reply instead of Next and then Send instead of Discard. Sorry 'bout that. On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:36 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:09 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.comwrote: Now to get silly...

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Scott Rowe
I'm pretty sure we ran Wylbur on the commercial system (a NAS 8043) in at least 1985-86, and I believe it was available for all customers, though I'm not a Wylbur expert. Alpha was also available, though it may have been running on the 3033. Alpha was a bit more archaic than Wylbur. IIRC, it

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/25/2010 8:39 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Two different products, eventually under one roof. Gerhard, can you give a blow by blow history? AFAIK, Wylbur was started at SLAC by Paul Anderson, John Borgelt, and Roger Fajman (possibly as a thesis work). I'm not sure how many

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/25/2010 3:39 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: That's true but I've actually seen at least one shop that converted WYLBUR to a TSO Command Processor. The logic of doing that excapes me completely... Wylbur has the most powerful LIST and CHANGE commands around; some installations might consider

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-25 Thread Ed Gould
I am kind of surprised that I have not seen MUSIC (sp?). I do not remember the history other than I think the University of Toronto (i think they picked up from University Mcgill. Not sure at all about that. Somewhere around 1995 there was a company here in

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Hillock, Timothy
I have seen a version of Adventure written in Basic. I still have that somewhere at home. Just the listing, never got around to typing it in. Take my advice. I'm not using it. :-) TImOTHY Hillock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201002221730189473.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 02/22/2010 at 05:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Would you be surprised if someone had an EMACS version? No. Would you be surprised if no one had an EMACS version? No. EMACS is a wonderful operating system; all that it's

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of9f900a3a.e257dd9e-on882576d3.00708cc7-882576d3.0071e...@kp.org, on 02/23/2010 at 12:44 PM, jack.hamil...@kp.org said: And I liked WYLBUR. My problem is that I like features in several different editors[1], including SuperWylbur©, but no single editor combines all of them. I prefer line

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of7bc60fb2.c3c3be5d-on882576d3.005acd1b-882576d3.005ae...@kp.org, on 02/23/2010 at 08:33 AM, jack.hamil...@kp.org said: Remember that TICO moon-lander? TECO? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4b831351.8030...@neo.tamu.edu, on 02/22/2010 at 05:29 PM, Richard Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu said: I suspect he may have meant ORVYL, the interactive exuction companion to WYLBUR. We never ran it, so I don't know much about it. Did anyone use it other than Stanford? -- Shmuel

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m3fx4s3kja@garlic.com, on 02/22/2010 at 06:42 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: from the file ... The phrase WYLBUR/TSO confirms my suspicion that someone was very confused; the two are very different animals. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Jack . Hamilton
List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure In of7bc60fb2.c3c3be5d-on882576d3.005acd1b-882576d3.005ae...@kp.org, on 02/23/2010 at 08:33 AM, jack.hamil...@kp.org said: Remember that TICO moon-lander? TECO? -- Shmuel

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread Jack . Hamilton
Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 02/24/2010 12:46 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure In 4b831351.8030...@neo.tamu.edu, on 02/22/2010 at 05:29 PM, Richard Peurifoy r

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-24 Thread zMan
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, jack.hamil...@kp.org wrote: snip I think there was a version that offloaded some of the work to a 7171 controller. That's quite enough of THAT kind of talk. Some of us have permanent scars from those machines. :-)

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#64 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#67 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Jack . Hamilton
paulgboul...@aim.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 02/22/2010 03:30 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:08:37 -0500

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Jack . Hamilton
To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: [IBM-MAIN] Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: I know what a TSO version is, but how could you have a Wylbur version written in PL/I? Wylbur didn't support any language other than its

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Tobias Cafiero
to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure My recollection is that someone at Stanford wrote replacement modules for all the PL/I modules that did I/O so they would run under ORVYL. When someone created

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Jack . Hamilton
- Or Colossal Cave Adventure The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: I suspect that what Tymshare had was a PDP-10, or maybe the older PDP

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes: from above, URL for Crowther's original source code for Adventure (as recovered from Don Woods's student account at

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-23 Thread Gabriel Tully
On 2/23/2010 3:44 PM, jack.hamil...@kp.org wrote: I used SAIL (and some other language, don't remember which now) on the LOTS machine mentioned in the DEC-10 messages below. I really liked TOPS-20. Then I really liked VM/CMS and XEDIT. And I liked WYLBUR. I guess it's my fate to like doomed

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m31vghaxi4@garlic.com, on 02/19/2010 at 01:30 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: Tymshare had gotten a copy from sail/stanford and put it up on their pdp machine ... and then ported it from pdp (fortran) to vm/cms (fortran). DEC had a bunch of unrelated machines with PD in

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-22 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: I know what a TSO version is, but how could you have a Wylbur version written in PL/I? Wylbur didn't support any language other than its own command/macro language. from the file ... WELLPUT TITLE 'W E L L P U T -- WYLBUR/TSO

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-22 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 2/22/2010 5:17 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: Inm31vghaxi4@garlic.com, on 02/19/2010 at 01:30 PM, Anne Lynn Wheelerl...@garlic.com said: Tymshare had gotten a copy from sail/stanford and put it up on their pdp machine ... and then ported it from pdp (fortran) to vm/cms

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:08:37 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: I know what a TSO version is, but how could you have a Wylbur version written in PL/I? Wylbur didn't support any language other than its own command/macro language. Would you be surprised if someone had an EMACS version? Would

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
zMan wrote: On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: Gabrial: I used to have a copy of Adventure that worked fine under MVS (albeit 30 years ago). Its been ages since I have thought about it. A fellow sysprog did the fortran conversion and we actually (at one time)

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/21/2010 4:13:38 P.M. Central Standard Time, rfocht...@ync.net writes: also remember The Death Ray has backfired and the entropy of the Enterprise has been maximized. Perhaps you'll be more cautious in your next life. :-) I think Darren had a C version going

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Chris Hoelscher
i personally preferred the replacement ship - the Fairie Queene F Chris Hoelscher IDMS/DB2 Database Architect Humana Inc 502-476-2538 choelsc...@humana.com you only need to test the programs that you want to work correctly The information transmitted is intended only for the person or

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#64 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#67 Adventure

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
Plurgh! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Sunday, 21 February 2010 12:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure At 19:02 +0100 on 02/19/2010, Thomas Berg

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread zMan
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Anthony Thompson anthony.thomp...@nt.gov.au wrote: Plurgh! That's plugh. :-) Also xyzzy and plover... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. ... and with respect to INV mentioned in email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#email800804 in this previous post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#74

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-21 Thread Ed Gould
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Sun, February 21, 2010 5:27:19 PM Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. John Crane john_crane...@yahoo.com writes: Someone actually keeps their email from 1978? You should write a book on leading an organized life! some bits pieces

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure in the late 70s I had done cmsback that was then deployed at several internal locations ... a couple old email mentioning CMSBACK http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#cmsback and various posts mentioning cmsback, backup

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#64 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#67 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-20 Thread Ed Gould
in VSBASIC but again its been ages. If I can find the tape you are certainly welcome to it. Ed From: Gabriel Tully gjtu...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Fri, February 19, 2010 2:54:58 PM Subject: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure On 2/19/2010 1:02

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-20 Thread zMan
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: Gabrial: I used to have a copy of Adventure that worked fine under MVS (albeit 30 years ago). Its been ages since I have thought about it. A fellow sysprog did the fortran conversion and we actually (at one time) had a map to

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-20 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:02 +0100 on 02/19/2010, Thomas Berg wrote about Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure: As it's Friday: Does anyone know where You can get a copy of the Adventure game that originally was written by Will Crowther and eventually for S/370 ? I had once a copy but it seems have gone

Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas Berg
As it's Friday: Does anyone know where You can get a copy of the Adventure game that originally was written by Will Crowther and eventually for S/370 ? I had once a copy but it seems have gone to the bit-bucket. Preferably one that is faithful to the original. (And runnable on z/OS.) You are

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Of Thomas Berg Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure As it's Friday: Does anyone know where You can get a copy of the Adventure game that originally was written by Will Crowther and eventually for S/370 ? I had once

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Field, Alan C.
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure As it's Friday: Does anyone know where You can get a copy of the Adventure game that originally was written by Will Crowther and eventually for S/370 ? I had once a copy but it seems have gone to the bit-bucket. Preferably one that is faithful

SV: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas Berg
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) Skickat: den 19 februari 2010 19:15 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure Here is a site that has several versions, including the original PDP-10 FORTRAN source. http

SV: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Thomas Berg
: den 19 februari 2010 19:15 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure You mean the PL/I one? I have it and the ISPF stats id field says CBT249. I haven't checked to see if its still there. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. thomas.b...@swedbank.se (Thomas Berg) writes: As it's Friday: Does anyone know where You can get a copy of the Adventure game that originally was written by

Re: Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure

2010-02-19 Thread Gabriel Tully
On 2/19/2010 1:02 PM, Thomas Berg wrote: As it's Friday: Does anyone know where You can get a copy of the Adventure game that originally was written by Will Crowther and eventually for S/370 ? I had once a copy but it seems have gone to the bit-bucket. Preferably one that is faithful to the