Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
back in 1983 when I worked in the IBM UK Education Centre we played ZORK under CMS. It was a FORTRAN program. As a result of the fun we had I wrote a book for Addison-Wesley on programming Adventure
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Dave Mitchell
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Further digging on error 220 doesn't look good: Explanation: FIOCS -- A data set reference number exceeds the limit specified for data set reference numbers when this operating system was generated. I
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Update: I have added a B minidisk to my VM user and unpacked vmarc onto it. genzork exec is indeed there... I do not know but whether the vmarc I'm using is the same one that the one found on Moshix
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi. The version I came across is this one found within an Archived internet site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050914173504/http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda/ I simply 'paste' bellow the relevant
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
<alejandro.olivan.alvarez@...> wrote: "Zork" means different things to different people, but yes, one of the early versions on the Colossal Cave adventure ran on CMS long ago, and
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Ross Patterson
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Greetings Alejandro, I cannot speak for pipes on CE, other than it does not exist. I¡¯m also actively working on getting Zork on CMS. The Zork version I have is from Moshix. Things to note: 1. Zork
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Mike Rankin
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ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi forum and Merry Christmas! I've stumbled with some cached web contents that, apparently, may indicate that Zork ran on CMS under VM/370. Sure, I've taken that with a grain of salt... I've that
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
What was I thinking... Should be this: #CP DISPLAY 8.10(12) or #CP PER I R E000.20 CMD D T0.20(11) or #CP DISPLAY 80-100(12) Just as easy to parse and much more intuitive cheers, William
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William Denton
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
Probably too late to suggest an alternate strategy... rather than the ";BASE=" syntax, update the DISPLAY command so the storage target would look more like an Assembler operand.. like this: Rather
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William Denton
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
Sounds good to me. I've needed the ; or similar and fixing it using x'100' or something like that, as you say, is safe, but weird. ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
Folks, I have uploaded that to the GITHUB repository and created an issue Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
I found one on the VM/370 Sixpack 1.2, not sure it is the right one. I have loaded it in the Files section. Cheers, Rene FERLAND, Montreal
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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Re: Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
Ross I can't find it either. Let me search on older disks. Might be a couple of days as the grand kids have been sent? home from school because of a smell and I am surrounded. Dave
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Dave Wade
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Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
Does anybody know where the GCCCSECT MODULE on the VM/370 CE 1.1.2 Y-disk came from? It's a C program, but I can't find any source for it, and Google has never heard of it. There's a similar program
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Ross Patterson
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Second beta of bREXX 1.1.0 now available
The second beta release of bREXX v1.1.0 for CMS on VM/370 is now available at https://github.com/RossPatterson/CMS-370-BREXX/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta-02/BREXX.zip. I have been testing this update
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Ross Patterson
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Updated Wiki Page: Reserved CP Modification Numbers
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The wiki page Reserved CP Modification Numbers ( /g/h390-vm/wiki/37734/214110 ) has been updated by Ross Patterson <ross.patterson@...>. Compare Revisions (
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
I love that somebody added support in the CP DISPLAY command for base registers (*e.g.*, #CP DISPLAY 8.10;BASE12 to display 16 bytes starting at 8 bytes past wherever R12 points). But the CP PER
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Ross Patterson
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Updated Wiki Page: Reserved CMS Modification Numbers
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#6328
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Re: RXSYSFN for VM/370
[email protected]> wrote: It might help future releases if the person who leads this one puts together a checklist of the tasks that go into releasing VM/370. As a newcomer to retrocomputing, I know
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Ross Patterson
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Re: RXSYSFN for VM/370
Yeah, EE (or any full-screen editor is important). Thank you for the update. [email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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