PH Games [was: PH work]

[Johnson, Tracy]

Yes ADVENTure, I have an internet HP3000 dedicated solely to games.  
You can see ADVENT at:

http://hp3000.empireclassic.com/other_games.html

Unfortunately for PH, there is no PH license on this machine.
(Unless Cognos is willing to open up a GNU for one of their
old versions, like Quasar?  Ahh, but Quasar didn't have Quick
did it?  8^]  )

BT


Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

-----Original Message-----
From: Deskin, Bob [mailto:Bob.Deskin@cognos.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 8:16 AM
To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu
Subject: RE: PH work


A little PowerHouse trivia: 
An early demo application for QUICK was the game MasterMind, where you figure out the sequence of a series of colored balls by making a guess and then refining your guess based on the information returned (like how many were in the correct spot and how many were the correct color). In fact, I was told that the RANDOM function was added because it was needed for the game.
Now I grant you, it's not a shoot-em-up, but then how many of those were written in COBOL. In fact, I don't remember any games written in COBOL. I do know that the original text adventure, Adventure (also know as Colossal Cave Adventure) was written in Fortran.
Bob Deskin              
Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc. 
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178 
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA 


-----Original Message----- 
From: Johnson, Tracy [mailto:Tracy.Johnson@msiusa.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:36 AM 
To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu 
Subject: RE: PH work 
Importance: Low 


I would have liked to have seen a PH based computer game. 
Seems that all the languages that 'made it' (except PH) 
had geeks that played with their language, but not PH, 
odd that.) 
BT 


Tracy Johnson 
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jon (Jarod) Hawks [mailto:hawksj@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:58 PM 
> To: Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa); 'powerh-l@cube.swau.edu' 
> Subject: RE: PH work 
> 
> 
> I love your optimism. Over the years mine has been 
> tarnished by participation in large companies. It's 
> like the urchins who program in Java, cling to the 
> rocks at the bottom of a fast flowing river, and the 
> big-wigs are content to just be in power and control. 
> Productivity and the sense of pride in accomplishment, 
> seems to be a thing of the old school, of which, I am 
> part of and fading away. 
> 
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