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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:
> Minis, on the other hand, had much simpler file formats, and sending
> or receiving a few bytes through a serial port was trivial.  I
> remember how much fun it was when I set up my IMSAI, and could do
> terminal I/O by simply toggling in a dozen instructions through the
> front panel.  Porting Adventure and Dungeon to the mainframe was
> pretty hairy, especially the terminal I/O part.

I first saw Adventure on vm/cms at TYMSHARE, they had brought it over
from Stanford SAIL PDP10 to their PDP10 and the fortran was fairly
straight-forward move to their vm/cms system. They told the story that
when TYMSHARE CEO found out that customers were playing games on their
systems, he ordered all games removed ... he apparently changed his mind
when they showed him that it had grown to account for something like 30%
of their revenue.

past posts mentioning adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/99.html#169 Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave"
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2000d.html#33 Adventure Games (Was: Navy orders supercomputer)
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2001m.html#44 Call for folklore - was Re: So it's cyclical.
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2002d.html#12 Mainframers: Take back the light (spotlight, that is)
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2002e.html#43 Hardest Mistake in Comp Arch to Fix
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2003f.html#46 Any DEC 340 Display System Doco ?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#69 IBM system 370
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2003l.html#40 The real history of computer architecture: the short form
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004c.html#34 Playing games in mainframe
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004g.html#49 Adventure game (was:PL/? History (was Hercules))
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#56 Xah Lee's Unixism
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2004m.html#20 Whatever happened to IBM's VM PC software?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#45 History of performance counters
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005h.html#38 Systems Programming for 8 Year-olds
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#18 Question about Dungeon game on the PDP
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005l.html#16 Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#15 Fast action games on System/360+?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#25 Fast action games on System/360+?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2005u.html#28 Fast action games on System/360+?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2006n.html#3 Not Your Dad's Mainframe: Little Iron
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#18 The History of Computer Role-Playing Games
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#0 10 worst PCs
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#17 Newbie question on table design
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#39 Newbie question on table design
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#6 Zork and Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#8 Original Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#15 "Atuan" - Colossal Cave in APL?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008c.html#2 folklore indeed
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008f.html#61 Primaries (USA)
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008i.html#47 Seeking (former) Adventurers
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008r.html#11 What if the computers went back to the '70s too?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#12 New machine code
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#13 New machine code
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2009l.html#16 August 7, 1944: today is the 65th Anniversary of the Birth of the  Computer
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#75 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#82 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#84 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#4 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#33 SHAREWARE at Its Finest
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#83 3270 Emulator Software
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010m.html#88 Baby Boomer Execs: Are you afraid of LinkedIn & Social Media?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#70 VMSHARE Archives
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#30 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#31 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#35 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#41 Colossal Cave Adventure in PL/I
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#9 Colossal Cave Adventure
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#38 Invention of Email
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#58 Altair Star Trek in assembly?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#6 Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2012n.html#68 Should you support or abandon the 3270 as a User Interface?
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#77 Spacewar! on S/360

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