Reply to post: Re: Not the Crysis joke

Remember the big IBM 360 mainframe rescue job? For now, Brexit has ballsed it up – big iron restorers

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Re: Not the Crysis joke

But can it run Space Invaders?

When I was at university in the mid-70s, the main machine was a 360/44. Batch processing most of the time, but in the afternoons it ran a timesharing system called RAX.

This predated Space Invaders - and the terminals were all green-screen alphanumeric "VDUs". However there was a moon landing game, where you controlled (I think) vertical and horizontal velocity by manipulating thrust, and the system would give you frequent (textual) updates on altitude, rate and angle of descent, etc.

I don't think I ever landed successfully.

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