[vcf-midatlantic] Colossal Cave Adventure on AMC website

[Dan Roganti]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Adam Rosen via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 29, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Dan Roganti via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at 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
> > --
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>
> 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



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