following are a couple of emails from '78 regarding getting a copy of
adventure for vm370/cms
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b
in this post
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#18 The History of Computer
Role-Playing Games
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On Jun 4, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Stephen Frazier wrote:
Bottomless pits, dwarves, and huge fierce green snakes that bar the
way, rod with rusty star, pay troll, yellow canary - 1969.
Wumpas was a rewrite in Basic of adventure which was in PL/I.
This is very much at odds with what's written in:
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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 S
"Your ship has blown up! The vile Klingon hordes will conquer the universe." was the message that
STARTREK put out when you lost.
Phil Smith III wrote:
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
se
Enough of this topic.
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?
The version I have running says:
THE ENTERPRISEHAS BEEN DESTROYED IN BATTLE.
DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI.
THE FEDERATION WIL
Bottomless pits, dwarves, and huge fierce green snakes that bar the way, rod with rusty star, pay
troll, yellow canary - 1969.
Wumpas was a rewrite in Basic of adventure which was in PL/I.
Adam Thornton wrote:
On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Stephen Frazier wrote:
No, I meant 1970. It was one of
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Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No, I meant 1970. It was one of the first games that ran on the computer
center
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.
On Jun 3, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Stephen Frazier 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 abou
On Jun 3, 2008, at 2:38 PM, Mark Bodenstein wrote:
Interesting. I played a lot of Adventure when I was a graduate
student and then employee in the Computer Science Department at
Cornell. I started grad school in 1969 and got an MS and became an
employee in 1971. I can't definitively name
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
Interesting. I played a lot of Adventure when I was a graduate
student and then employee in the Computer Science Department at
Cornell. I started grad school in 1969 and got an MS and became an
employee in 1971. I can't definitively name the years, but I left
the University in 1976, and this
On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Stephen Frazier wrote:
I have a copy of the source code for an early version of Adventure.
I do not seem to have the University of Oklahoma mods that I wrote
around 1970 anymore.
That seems unlikely; pretty much all the sources agree that Adventure
itself was w
Source is here: http://www.wurb.com/if/game/game/1 and the follow on
"Dungeon" is here: http://www.wurb.com/if/game/2
S/370 executables used to float around the VM community. I'm sure
somebody still has them.
I have a working version of Adventure, and other games, on our VM system
(just don't tell my boss!).
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I have a copy of the source code for an early version of Adventure. I do not seem to have the
University of Oklahoma mods that I wrote around 1970 anymore.
It was still runnable about 2 years ago when I last tried it.
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Stephen Frazier
Information Technology Unit
Oklahoma Department of Correct
Anyone who played the old Adventure game on VM should be interested in
the email exchange below.
A project at the University of Maryland (Maryland Institute for
Technology in the Humanities -- MITH) is exploring preserving this sort
of virtual world for academic research.
http://www.digitalh
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