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Waaaaay back in the early 80s on our CMS system I played a submarine warfare game while waiting on long runs to finish.

I want to say the game was "subwar" but I'm not sure. You played a sub with a finite number of torpedos, being pursued by some number of destroyers. It was decidedly low tech and very addictive.

I've been looking for the game on and off and have never found a mention. I just checked CBTTAPE.

Ring any bells?

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 09:34 AM, BlameTroi wrote:

Waaaaay back in the early 80s on our CMS system I played a submarine warfare game while waiting on long runs to finish.

All I have been able to find, on narchive.com: https://bit.listserv.ibm-main.narkive.com/jAwmVfmk/my-first-mainframe-experience-was-pf9-swap-question

is "battleship game by Dave McBride"

?... Mark S.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 07:59 PM, Mark A. Stevens wrote:

That wasn't it, but thanks for taking a look. Our systems programmer was a PL/I guy and it may have been something he brought from his prior shop.

Man that thread ... that's the hardware I programmed on :) We replaced a 370/148 with a 4341 and retired the physical card reader (which I don't think I ever saw used). Fun times :)