Balthasar,
I have it. I'm unsure who wrote it but considering its age, I don't think
the author would mind me passing it on.
E-Mail me and unless someone has objections, I'll pass you the necessary files.
Cheers,
Darrell.
Darrel,
Glad to see you posted this within the last year here! I'm restoring a Convergent AWS, so the video dependencies that Al Kossow speaks of below should not be an issue, since I'm using original hardware.
Um. Darrel posted that in the year 2000. Over twenty years ago.Scott, yes, of course, you are right. I responded too quickly, and what I I thought I saw was 2020 in the date, of course it was actually 2000. And of course, when I realized this, I couldn't edit my message because it had already been sent. I was a
While I certainly enjoyed playing rats back in the early 1980's,Yes, of course. For now, Ill put that in my category of "unobtainium-ware", binaries lost to time.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a copy of the software
(although I do have a couple of 5.25" BTOS floppies around somewhere,I think it's very great that you have some 5.25" BTOS floppies. Do you think that your floppies are designed to work on The Burroughs B20 (an "AWS-class" machine), or the B25 or higher (an "NGEN-class" machine)?
I don't recall that I ever had a copy of RATS).
Um. Darrel posted that in the year 2000. Over twenty years ago.=20Scott, yes, of course, you are right. I responded too quickly, and what I = >I thought I saw was 2020 in the date, of course it was actually 2000. And=
of course, when I realized this, I couldn't edit my message because it had= already been sent. I was a bit embarrassed. But then I thought that if t=
he list were really dead, nobody would see it anyway! So, instead of sendi= >ng a retraction, I just let it be. But yet, here you are. Good!
While I certainly enjoyed playing rats back in the early 1980's,=20Yes, of course. For now, Ill put that in my category of "unobtainium-ware"= >, binaries lost to time.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a copy of the software=20
(although I do have a couple of 5.25" BTOS floppies around somewhere,=20I think it's very great that you have some 5.25" BTOS floppies. Do you thi= >nk that your floppies are designed to work on The Burroughs B20 (an "AWS-cl= >ass" machine), or the B25 or higher (an "NGEN-class" machine)?
I don't recall that I ever had a copy of RATS).
Convergent MightyFrame <mighty...@gmail.com> writes:
Um. Darrel posted that in the year 2000. Over twenty years ago.=20Scott, yes, of course, you are right. I responded too quickly, and what I = >I thought I saw was 2020 in the date, of course it was actually 2000. And=
of course, when I realized this, I couldn't edit my message because it had= already been sent. I was a bit embarrassed. But then I thought that if t=
he list were really dead, nobody would see it anyway! So, instead of sendi= >ng a retraction, I just let it be. But yet, here you are. Good!
While I certainly enjoyed playing rats back in the early 1980's,=20Yes, of course. For now, Ill put that in my category of "unobtainium-ware"= >, binaries lost to time.
I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a copy of the software=20
Hmm.. My guess would be B20; by the time the B25 was out (which we(although I do have a couple of 5.25" BTOS floppies around somewhere,=20 >> I don't recall that I ever had a copy of RATS).I think it's very great that you have some 5.25" BTOS floppies. Do you thi= >nk that your floppies are designed to work on The Burroughs B20 (an "AWS-cl= >ass" machine), or the B25 or higher (an "NGEN-class" machine)?
were using as the maintenance processor for the Burroughs V500
mainframes), I was done with the B20 systems (I later transferred
up to the former Convergent Technologies in San Jose in 89, but I worked on unix
systems up there).
It's possible the floppies were for the V530 maintenance processor (B25),
but they'd likely just have maintenance processor functionality, not rats
or BTOS installation.
I'll see if I can dig them up.
Any progress in the past year?
Eeva Roslynn <eeva.r...@gmail.com> writes:
Any progress in the past year?I have a 5 1/4" floppy on my desk labeled 'Rats'.
I'll try to get it up to Al at CHM sometime in the next
few weeks. No guarantees as to the readability or that
the label matches the content.
Eeva, Scott, Stuart & all interested,
I was part of the Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS) team. I worked on the Executive (command line program) and wrote the Context Manager. But the game of Rats was one of my favorites and even pre-dates me.
In my spare time, I have started rewriting the game of Rats from scratch using the Python language. I have forgotten many of the details of the original, so I have implemented a number of things to the best of my knowledge.
No guarantees that this will become a real thing, but I've put together a video showing a preview of what I have so far (all place holder art and place holder sounds). For now, it's a fun spare time project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6SjM5-3Kog
If you have any comments or if you remember a lot of details, feel free to get in touch with me directly: Irv at furrypants dot com
(I do know the original author and have tried to contact him, but I haven't been able to reach him.)
Irv
On Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 12:08:50 AM UTC-8, mighty...@gmail.com wrote:
Eeva, Scott, Stuart & all interested,
In my spare time, I have started rewriting the game of Rats from scratch using the Python language. I have forgotten many of the details of the original, so I have implemented a number of things to the best of my knowledge.
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