Ok, I know this title 99% of the time is a ‘oh whatever’ as most people seem to have confused mini’s with mainframes… PDP-10’s, PDP-11’s, VAX’s (even the massive 11/780), were all minicomputers…
But I came across this post, which just mentions in passing that there was a port of dungeon (zork) to the IBM Mainframe…
And rescued via the internet archive, is Melinda Varian’s home page, which includes…. Dungeon in VMARC format…
The sad thing is that I can barely remember logging on to TSO, using ISPF, and getting out… I was so bad with the system that I’d use an empty file as a template, as copying files was easy, but creating a file on the host took me a whole day.
I vaguely recall using this IND$ thing to transfer files, but I don’t know what you need exactly to facilitate it…
So I’ve downloaded hercules/380 along with the VM370 SixPack and… remembered that I don’t… remember much, let alone enough to actually operate VM/370.
I tried passing VMARC files through PC ARC, and got.. nothing, I even manually byteswapped the files to get nothing.
Oh well I’m at an impass, but maybe some mainframe dude will see this one day, and take a peek.
Oh it’s the end of 2010, welcome to 2011.
—-edit
I got it to run on VM/370 CMS.
