[TUHS] GBACA

[TUHS] GBACA

[Mary Ann Horton]

The topic of GBACA (Get Back At Corporate America), the video game for 
the BLIT/5620, has come up on a Facebook group.

Does anyone happen to have any details about it, source code, author, 
screen shots, ...?

Thanks,

     Mary Ann

Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[arnold]

Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:

> The topic of GBACA (Get Back At Corporate America), the video game for 
> the BLIT/5620, has come up on a Facebook group.
>
> Does anyone happen to have any details about it, source code, author, 
> screen shots, ...?
>
> Thanks,
>
>      Mary Ann
>

I remember that game!  I am pretty sure it came out of Bell Labs; we had
it at Georgia Tech along with our 5620s and the layers software (or
whateverit was called) to let you use the 5620 on BSD vaxen.

I don't remember (and don't think I knew) any other details....

Sorry,

Arnold

Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[Clem Cole]

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AT&T Summit had library called something like the Toolbox. A number of
assorted tools like some PS support, the  korn shell (ksh88), mk and think
the some of the  5620 tools like layers where able to be purchased from it.
  It was all source.

What I don’t remember how many of the 5620 games were in that kit (or much
of anything else in it).

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:43 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:

> Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > The topic of GBACA (Get Back At Corporate America), the video game for
>
> > the BLIT/5620, has come up on a Facebook group.
>
> >
>
> > Does anyone happen to have any details about it, source code, author,
>
> > screen shots, ...?
>
> >
>
> > Thanks,
>
> >
>
> >      Mary Ann
>
> >
>
>
>
> I remember that game!  I am pretty sure it came out of Bell Labs; we had
>
> it at Georgia Tech along with our 5620s and the layers software (or
>
> whateverit was called) to let you use the 5620 on BSD vaxen.
>
>
>
> I don't remember (and don't think I knew) any other details....
>
>
>
> Sorry,
>
>
>
> Arnold
>
> --
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Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[Clem Cole]

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If we can chase down that library you might find it in there but I know I
don’t have it in my archives.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 4:50 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

> AT&T Summit had library called something like the Toolbox. A number of
> assorted tools like some PS support, the  korn shell (ksh88), mk and think
> the some of the  5620 tools like layers where able to be purchased from it.
>   It was all source.
>
> What I don’t remember how many of the 5620 games were in that kit (or much
> of anything else in it).
>
> On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 3:43 PM <arnold@skeeve.com> wrote:
>
>> Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > The topic of GBACA (Get Back At Corporate America), the video game for
>>
>> > the BLIT/5620, has come up on a Facebook group.
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Does anyone happen to have any details about it, source code, author,
>>
>> > screen shots, ...?
>>
>> >
>>
>> > Thanks,
>>
>> >
>>
>> >      Mary Ann
>>
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> I remember that game!  I am pretty sure it came out of Bell Labs; we had
>>
>> it at Georgia Tech along with our 5620s and the layers software (or
>>
>> whateverit was called) to let you use the 5620 on BSD vaxen.
>>
>>
>>
>> I don't remember (and don't think I knew) any other details....
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry,
>>
>>
>>
>> Arnold
>>
>> --
> Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
>
>
> --
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual

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Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[Greg A. Woods]

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At Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:22:22 -0700, Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:
Subject: [TUHS] GBACA
>
> The topic of GBACA (Get Back At Corporate America), the video game for
> the BLIT/5620, has come up on a Facebook group.
>
> Does anyone happen to have any details about it, source code, author,
> screen shots, ...?

It was written by Pat Autilio:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/patautilio/

I do have a copy of the source.  It's all marked up with comments like:

 *      Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 AT&T
 *      All Rights Reserved

 *      THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE
 *      CODE OF AT&T.
 *      The copyright notice above does not
 *      evidence any actual or intended
 *      publication of such source code.

But then again so was all the other dmd/layers stuff at the time, and
most of that was opened up, if I'm not mistaken, by Dave Dykstra
(e.g. the dev5620 package even came with a GPLv2 COPYING file).

So I suppose I could make it available....

--
					Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>

Kelowna, BC     +1 250 762-7675           RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>     Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>

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Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[arnold]

It'd be cool if you would give this to Warren. There are even 5620
emulators out there; maybe this game could be revived? I remember
playing it, it was fun.

Arnold

"Greg A. Woods" <woods@robohack.ca> wrote:

> At Fri, 18 Sep 2020 14:22:22 -0700, Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net> wrote:
> Subject: [TUHS] GBACA
> >
> > The topic of GBACA (Get Back At Corporate America), the video game for
> > the BLIT/5620, has come up on a Facebook group.
> >
> > Does anyone happen to have any details about it, source code, author,
> > screen shots, ...?
>
> It was written by Pat Autilio:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/patautilio/
>
> I do have a copy of the source.  It's all marked up with comments like:
>
>  *      Copyright (c) 1984, 1985 AT&T
>  *      All Rights Reserved
>
>  *      THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE
>  *      CODE OF AT&T.
>  *      The copyright notice above does not
>  *      evidence any actual or intended
>  *      publication of such source code.
>
> But then again so was all the other dmd/layers stuff at the time, and
> most of that was opened up, if I'm not mistaken, by Dave Dykstra
> (e.g. the dev5620 package even came with a GPLv2 COPYING file).
>
> So I suppose I could make it available....
>
> --
> 					Greg A. Woods <gwoods@acm.org>
>
> Kelowna, BC     +1 250 762-7675           RoboHack <woods@robohack.ca>
> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>     Avoncote Farms <woods@avoncote.ca>

Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[william cheswick]

I’ve always thought that a number of these would be fun, and pretty easy to make into apps.  And GBACA might have a little historical interest.

ches

> On Feb 3, 2021, at 12:46 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> It'd be cool if you would give this to Warren. There are even 5620
> emulators out there; maybe this game could be revived? I remember
> playing it, it was fun.
> 
> Arnold

Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[arnold]

The thing to do, "obviously", is to get the 5620 emulator running as
an app on Android... :-) Retrocomputing with a vengeance.

Arnold

william cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:

> I’ve always thought that a number of these would be fun, and pretty easy
> to make into apps.  And GBACA might have a little historical interest.
>
> ches
>
> > On Feb 3, 2021, at 12:46 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> > 
> > It'd be cool if you would give this to Warren. There are even 5620
> > emulators out there; maybe this game could be revived? I remember
> > playing it, it was fun.
> > 
> > Arnold

Re: [TUHS] GBACA

[Clem Cole]

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👍 (another retirement project)
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On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:28 AM william cheswick <ches@cheswick.com> wrote:

> I’ve always thought that a number of these would be fun, and pretty easy
> to make into apps.  And GBACA might have a little historical interest.
>
> ches
>
> > On Feb 3, 2021, at 12:46 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> >
> > It'd be cool if you would give this to Warren. There are even 5620
> > emulators out there; maybe this game could be revived? I remember
> > playing it, it was fun.
> >
> > Arnold
>

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