[vcf-midatlantic] Colossal Cave Adventure on AMC website

[Dave Wade]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vcf-midatlantic [mailto:vcf-midatlantic-
> bounces at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org] On Behalf Of Adam Rosen
> via vcf-midatlantic
> Sent: 29 June 2017 14:35
> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>
> Cc: Adam Rosen <adam at 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 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
> > --
> > _  ____
> > / \__/   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