Colossal Cave Adventure on AMC website
Maybe old news, but here goes: Rick Adams made a web version of the game for AMC: http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/exclusives/colossal-cave-advent... It has a nice green screen CRT look. FYI It has a single input line "Next ?" - not quite like a terminal. (Dummy me I was hitting ENTER expecting it to scroll and thought it was broken) from: http://rickadams.org/adventure/
On 6/28/2017 12:41 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Maybe old news, but here goes: Rick Adams made a web version of the game for AMC: http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/exclusives/colossal-cave-advent...
It has a nice green screen CRT look. FYI It has a single input line "Next ?" - not quite like a terminal. (Dummy me I was hitting ENTER expecting it to scroll and thought it was broken) from: http://rickadams.org/adventure/
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts! -Connor K
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
funny that there is really on the one TI 99 StarTrek video game that is any good. Or am I missing one? On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
Huh? Get a cup of coffee Bill :) On 6/29/2017 9:18 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
funny that there is really on the one TI 99 StarTrek video game that is any good. Or am I missing one?
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 8:24 AM, Matt Patoray via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:20 AM, Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
On Jun 29, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
I think I have seen versions of Adventure (or Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, etc.) on computers from mainframes through 1980s desktops. It has made me think it would be an interesting quest to play the game on every type of computer it was ported to and document the progress! So is Star Trek actually more common than Adventure? Adam
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Adam Rosen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Jun 29, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
I think I have seen versions of Adventure (or Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, etc.) on computers from mainframes through 1980s desktops. It has made me think it would be an interesting quest to play the game on every type of computer it was ported to and document the progress!
So is Star Trek actually more common than Adventure?
Adam
well, I think if you only count the Text/Ascii version of the games they probably both come out equal. They were ported to just about every mainframe/minicomputer. But they were talking about the later versions with color graphics in the Star Trek games The Star Trek ascii game came out first in 1971 on the SDS Sigma 7 Shortly after the 3rd season and the show was canceled in 1969. Then Colossal came out in 1976 Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
now that I think of it I used to play a text adventure StarTrek that had the red alert sounds and all that, on the IBM PC. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Adam Rosen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Jun 29, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other
people.
I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
I think I have seen versions of Adventure (or Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, etc.) on computers from mainframes through 1980s desktops. It has made me think it would be an interesting quest to play the game on every type of computer it was ported to and document the progress!
So is Star Trek actually more common than Adventure?
Adam
well, I think if you only count the Text/Ascii version of the games they probably both come out equal. They were ported to just about every mainframe/minicomputer. But they were talking about the later versions with color graphics in the Star Trek games The Star Trek ascii game came out first in 1971 on the SDS Sigma 7 Shortly after the 3rd season and the show was canceled in 1969. Then Colossal came out in 1976 Dan
-- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:12 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
now that I think of it I used to play a text adventure StarTrek that had the red alert sounds and all that, on the IBM PC.
I recall finding a website long ago which listed all versions and ports of Star Trek Imagine having a display with as many types running all together, You would have to get at least a minicomputer from the 70s in there to make it impressive Dan _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
Imagine having a display with as many types running all together, You would have to get at least a minicomputer from the 70s in there to make it impressive
I've seen this done before with flight simulator software. It's a really good way to demonstrate how the technology has evolved (assuming you're willing to have a modern PC on display for contrast). Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller http://www.devinheitmueller.com
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Adam Rosen via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 29 June 2017 14:35 To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Adam Rosen <adam@oakbog.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Colossal Cave Adventure on AMC website
On Jun 29, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <vcf- midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Funny this is brought up. Today at work someone sent me a version of colossal cave on z/VM. They said they used to have a game called "star trek" too. The files are from 1994 I think it was? I have gotten some other fun clock programs and such from other people. I wonder what else people have laying around on their VM accounts!
-Connor K
I know IBM also had various versions of "Star Trek" and other games for the S/38, I have played some of them after being ported to the AS/400, they where also available for the S/36 and I would imagine the S/34 as well. -- Matt Patoray Owner, MSP Productions KD8AMG
I read somewhere before that Star Trek is the one game that has been ported the most times of any game, beginning with their Text game to the various color graphics versions on the many home computers and later on for the PC, Amiga, and others. Dan -- _ ____ / \__/ Scotty, We Need More Power !! \_/ _\__ Aye, Cap'n, but we've only got 80 col's !!
I think I have seen versions of Adventure (or Colossal Cave Adventure, Zork, etc.) on computers from mainframes through 1980s desktops. It has made me think it would be an interesting quest to play the game on every type of computer it was ported to and document the progress!
So is Star Trek actually more common than Adventure?
Adam
That’s a hard question. Certainly, StarTrek is simpler. I used to have a version on FLEX09 on a 6809. We didn't have Adventure. There is a VM/CMS copy of Startrek for Hercules in the H390-VM Yahoo group... https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/H390-VM/files/VM%20Games/ Dave
On 06/29/2017 01:14 PM, Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
There is a VM/CMS copy of Startrek for Hercules in the H390-VM Yahoo group...
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/H390-VM/files/VM%20Games/
Oh my, I hadn't seen that stuff. Think that'd run under VM/ESA? I'd guess probably yes. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
-----Original Message----- From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic- bounces@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic Sent: 30 June 2017 06:01 To: Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic <vcf- midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> Cc: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Colossal Cave Adventure on AMC website
On 06/29/2017 01:14 PM, Dave Wade via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
There is a VM/CMS copy of Startrek for Hercules in the H390-VM Yahoo group...
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/H390-VM/files/VM%20Games/
Oh my, I hadn't seen that stuff. Think that'd run under VM/ESA? I'd guess probably yes.
Not sure if that’s the same games tape I have, but do know some stuff won't run ASIS under VM/370R6 it requires VM/SP so pretty sure they will run under ESA
-Dave
Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Not mainframe but modern web browser: http://ushomeautomation.com/adventure/advent.html It's Javascript (and it looks amazingly like FORTRAN ... ;-) ). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
I get: "Whoops, an exception occurred while attempting to enter the cave: ReferenceError: Adventure is not definedWhoops, an exception occurred while attempting to enter the cave: ReferenceError: Adventure is not defined" On 6/30/2017 9:29 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Not mainframe but modern web browser:
http://ushomeautomation.com/adventure/advent.html
It's Javascript (and it looks amazingly like FORTRAN ... ;-) ).
On 06/30/2017 09:47 AM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I get: "Whoops, an exception occurred while attempting to enter the cave: ReferenceError: Adventure is not definedWhoops, an exception occurred while attempting to enter the cave: ReferenceError: Adventure is not defined"
Whoops, let me fix that ... Done. Too man programming languages. My Fault. Comments in Javascript are // & /* */ not # (shell, Perl, Python). -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies
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