Mainframe games for IBM MVS 3.8... or z/OS - M45

[@michaelyapkf]

Moshix, thanks for another great mainframe video tutorial. I always look forward to your KZbin channels. There is always something new and not discovered and you will always be there to point it out. Bravo.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Thank you so much Rocky Yap!! Much appreciated. I am uploading right now a new video that I like myself quite a bit. Should be up in the next 45 minutes.

[@SimonClarkstone]

I recognise only one of those games in the listing: ADVENT, which the famous Collossal Cave Adventure, an ancestor of most text adventures.

[@mieszkogulinski168]

My mother used to play a puzzle game, I don't know what is the English name but in Polish it's named Kulki (little balls) where player has to move colored balls on a grid. The version she played is a Windows 3.1 executable, so it doesn't work on modern 64-bit computers. That's why I wrote my own implementation in JavaScript, where the balls and grid cells are displayed as appropriately styled HTML elements ;) Looks like the 3270 terminal could work with this type of games, where the moves are initiated by the user, such as chess, sudoku, Boulder Dash- type game... Also, long time ago I wrote a Snake reimplementation in Turbo Pascal, in text mode, so it looked roughly like the one in the video. My friend from high school is one of the authors of a puzzle game named Quantum Game with Photons - I wonder how a game like that would look like in text mode... :)

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Thanks. I love text mode games

[@misterspock1]

Nice! I never knew the games were there!

[@ajazvo]

Good software engineers like all engineers are creative. That's lost among most academics and the general public at large. They have the false impression that real engineers are socially awkward introverts with no appreciation for nature or culture. When in fact the opposite is the case. The line between art and science is often an invisible one. Leonardo da Vinci lived over 500 years ago and is a good example of someone that had a good grasp of how thing should work and how they should look. The best musicians have an in-depth knowledge of audio engineering. The same hold true for chefs, animators and many more creative fields. Many good coders that I know were first attracted to computers because they saw writing code as a blank canvas, an outlet for their creativity and that forced compelled them to learn more.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

True

[@Dr.GeoDave]

Playing Star Trek on a CDC-6600 using a teletype terminal in 1973….

[@vinatron8075]

Is it possible to get your intro sequence from both from your regular videos and the one from the JES3 video? If it's possible to send me those I would greatly appreciate because I like your intros. Thanks Vincent

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Massey Ferguson sure. Where do I send them to?

[@moshixmainframechannel]

You can also download my videos with youtube-dl in Linux and then edit to your liking.

[@vinatron8075]

Thanks I kinda wondered if I could get one without the video title. but I can do it that way but if you can here's my email: [e-mail]. Thanks Vincent

[@macieksoft]

So WORM is a SNAKE just like reheat is afterburner. Concordes and mainframes always use the odd names :-P

[@moshixmainframechannel]

hahahah true