Re:Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet
by kimkim on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:08AM
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There was (is?) a whole suite of games for the /36 system, which would presumably also run on the AS/400. This suite included Black Jack, dice games, and a very nice adventure game, which I enjoyed playing in the 80s as a kid on my dad's /36 (for which he ran a business). The screen showed a map with treasures, enemies, coins, and other stuff. You could move around, fight monsters and do trading. An interesting feature was that the weight of stuff you carried around mattered. And since one coin had a weight of 1 (whatever weight unit), it often made sense to overpay for an item so you could reduce the overall weight you were carrying around. Unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the game and I also don't have the gaming libraries anymore. I have an AS/400 (even two of them, hehe) and I would love to run the adventure one more time :-)
Re:Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet
by Moru on Monday January 14, 2019 @06:16PM
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Everyone here were using their PC with terminal emulators so no need for gaming on the AS/400 :-)
Re:Getting an IBM AS/400 Midrange Computer on the Internet
by ASalazarMX on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @04:00PM
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Pragmatically, yes, but where's the challenge in that?
Back in the late 90s, for some reason I had to attend work the last week of the year. There was barely anything to do, so I entertained myself doing an AS/400 Reversi game. It had a rudimentary AI inspired by the way the CPU played the same game on my cheap Ericsson phone: most squares had a value (3 for corners, 2 for notable squares and 1 for everything else), and it just summed up the values of the squares that would be captured with each possible move.
I was sure more games had to exist out there, but in retrospective, AS/400 were expensive to run, and I guess nobody wanted to be caught using it to make or play games.