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From: billc@wupulm.wustl.EDU (Bill Canning)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Hello?  Anyone out there?
Summary: Multiplayer Game in REXX on VM
Keywords: game VM
Message-ID: <258@wupulm.wustl.EDU>
Date: 6 Aug 89 18:41:40 GMT
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Reply-To: billc@wupulm.UUCP (Bill Canning)
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I remember when I was in college (about 4 years ago) there was a multi-
player game of exploration and treasure gathering that was written in 
REXX that ran on an unattended VM account.  The players would SEND messages
to the Virtual Machine running the game, which contained commands about
what direction to go or where to look, etc.  The VM would get those messages
and figure out what the player wanted to do, then would send back the output
to the player, something like this:

FROM UMCVMB(GAME):      +-+-+
FROM UMCVMB(GAME):      |   |
FROM UMCVMB(GAME):      + @ |
FROM UMCVMB(GAME):      |   |
FROM UMCVMB(GAME):      +- -+

The '+'s were doors, etc.  Basically you just tried to find the items that
existed in the maze, and get out alive.  Often another adventurer would have
some of the things you would need, so you would have to kill that person.

Does anyone out there happen to have the code to such a game?  I know there 
were several copies out there.

If you have any information on how I could get the code, could you please mail
me?  I'd really be interested in seeing the actual code, since I was trying to
write something like this on a different system.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Bill Canning
billc%wupulm@wupost.wustl.EDU