This group is for all folks running the original IBM VM/370 Release 6 operating system (or later (e.g. VMTCE (Community Edition)) on Hercules. Like the other early IBM operating systems this version has always been in the public domain and so can be freely distributed. The base version as supplied by IBM is lacking in many facilities. IBM solved this by providing additional extension products which were licensed and so are not available. There are however many user enhancements available which can be installed. In addition, in order to get users up and running quickly updated "releases" of VM/370 included the most popular updates are available for download, so novices can start to learn VM without having to delve into the system internals. It is intended that this wiki will provide information on the base release and these updates.
The available versions are here :-
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Further digging on error 220 doesn't look good:
Explanation: FIOCS -- A data set
reference number exceeds the limit
specified for data set reference
numbers when this operating system was
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Update:
I have added a B minidisk to my VM user and unpacked vmarc onto it.
genzork exec is indeed there... I do not know but whether the vmarc I'm using is the same one that the one found on Moshix
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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#6343
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi.
The version I came across is this one found within an Archived internet site:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050914173504/http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda/
I simply 'paste' bellow the relevant
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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#6342
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
<alejandro.olivan.alvarez@...> wrote:
"Zork" means different things to different people, but yes, one of the
early versions on the Colossal Cave adventure ran on CMS long ago,
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Ross Patterson
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#6341
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Greetings Alejandro,
I cannot speak for pipes on CE, other than it does not exist. I’m also actively working on getting Zork on CMS. The Zork version I have is from Moshix.
Things to note:
1. Zork
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Mike Rankin
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#6340
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ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi forum and Merry Christmas!
I've stumbled with some cached web contents that, apparently, may indicate that Zork ran on CMS under VM/370.
Sure, I've taken that with a grain of salt... I've that
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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#6339
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
What was I thinking...
Should be this:
#CP DISPLAY 8.10(12)
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#CP PER I R E000.20 CMD D T0.20(11)
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#CP DISPLAY 80-100(12)
Just as easy to parse and much more intuitive
cheers, William
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William Denton
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#6338
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
Probably too late to suggest an alternate strategy... rather than the ";BASE=" syntax, update the DISPLAY command so the storage target would look more like an Assembler operand.. like this:
Rather
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William Denton
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#6337
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
Sounds good to me. I've needed the ; or similar and fixing it using x'100' or something like that, as you say, is safe, but weird.
... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
Folks,
I have uploaded that to the GITHUB repository and created an issue
Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
I found one on the VM/370 Sixpack 1.2, not sure it is the right one. I have loaded it in the Files section.
Cheers,
Rene FERLAND, Montreal
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René Ferland
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#6334
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Re: Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
Ross
I can't find it either. Let me search on older disks. Might be a couple of days as the grand kids have been sent? home from school because of a smell and I am surrounded.
Dave
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Dave Wade
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#6333
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Anybody know where GCCSECT came from?
Does anybody know where the GCCCSECT MODULE on the VM/370 CE 1.1.2 Y-disk
came from? It's a C program, but I can't find any source for it, and
Google has never heard of it. There's a similar program
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Ross Patterson
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Second beta of bREXX 1.1.0 now available
The second beta release of bREXX v1.1.0 for CMS on VM/370 is now available
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https://github.com/RossPatterson/CMS-370-BREXX/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta-02/BREXX.zip.
I have been testing this update
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Ross Patterson
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#6331
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Updated Wiki Page: Reserved CP Modification Numbers
#wiki-notice
The wiki page Reserved CP Modification Numbers ( /g/h390-vm/wiki/37734/214110 ) has been updated by Ross Patterson <ross.patterson@...>.
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CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
I love that somebody added support in the CP DISPLAY command for base
registers (*e.g.*, #CP DISPLAY 8.10;BASE12 to display 16 bytes starting at
8 bytes past wherever R12 points). But the CP PER
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Ross Patterson
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#6329
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Updated Wiki Page: Reserved CMS Modification Numbers
#wiki-notice
The wiki page Reserved CMS Modification Numbers ( /g/h390-vm/wiki/37735/214106 ) has been updated by Ross Patterson <ross.patterson@...>.
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Re: RXSYSFN for VM/370
[email protected]> wrote:
It might help future releases if the person who leads this one puts
together a checklist of the tasks that go into releasing VM/370. As a
newcomer to retrocomputing, I
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Ross Patterson
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#6327
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Re: RXSYSFN for VM/370
Yeah, EE (or any full-screen editor is important).
Thank you for the update.
[email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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#6326
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Re: RXSYSFN for VM/370
Bertram,
Not sure where we are! We lost the person who built the last version, so there is a bit of a void, but I think we are getting to the stage where there is enough new stuff for another
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Dave Wade
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