🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 25 Nov 2017 22:17:40 -0800 (PST), dad...@gmail.com wrote:

>On Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 9:32:53 AM UTC-5, George R. Gonzalez wrote:
>> Waay back around 1982, I had the rare privilidge to buy one of the
>> pre-peroduction prototypes of the not too famous Convergent Technology
>> workstation.  It was a OEM product, resold under various brands, maybe
>> Burroughs, NCR, and Univac?  Not sure.
>> 
>> Anyway, at the time it was a STEAL, I got a 8086 CPU, a 14megabyte hard
>> disk, 256K bytes of RAM, a green-screen hi-res (for the time) monitor, and a
>> fancy keyboard.  (No mouse), (no graphics, eacept downloadable character
>> font graphics).  No case, just open chassis, open monitor, three uncased
>> power supplies, all screwed onto a sheet of plywood.
>> 
>> It was a STEAL for only $3000.
>> 
>> 
>> It had a very advanced operating system for the age.  While PC's barely had
>> PCDOS, this OS had a non-modal screen editor, long file names, a form-based
>> command processor, a fuss-free local area network and file-sharing,
>> spreadsheet, good word processor, FORTRAN, BASIC and Pascal compilers
>> (shoddy Msoft ones). Text windows.,
>> an awesome assembler, system source code, custom build system options, and
>> more that I've forgotten.
>> 
>> In My Humble Opinion, a HECK of a lot better computer than the IBM PC.
>> 
>> But as we know the PC won out.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> And oh yes, an addictive and fun "rats maze" game that I played for hours
>> and hours.  Pretty good graphics considering it was all character-font
>> based.
>> 
>> Anybody remember that game?  Anybody have the source code to it?
>> 
>> Drool....  drool...
>> 
>> ( Eventually after a few years the custom hard disk controller died and I
>> tossed the whole shebang in the dumpster.  Sad, but that seemed like the
>> only option at the time.)

>I remember the game fondly as well. I worked as a district admin in the Atlanta Regional office and spent many hours after work and during lunch hour playing the game. Would love to get a copy to play now.
>
>If you do find a copy / version that would play I would be ecstatic...

     Rats was great.  I remember staying late and nearly late for an
accounting class, but I finally won a game.  Then, I got really good.

     Novell's rats game (nlsnipes) was nowhere near as good, but I do
have it.  I just tried to run it under DOSBox, but it wants share.  I
have had it running before; I do not remember what I did.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko