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"Oh and JCL ....did a lot of that and setting up benchmarks with TSO/ SPF!!!"
I remember us sharing our various backgrounds some time back. I do remember you worked with various language systems on IBM mainframes etc..
Yea this stuff is a nice diversion. One can write code that one then can see in these first shooter games. I am becoming a bit adapt at keeping my eyes glued as where my squad is positioned in order for them to take advantage of cover points, e.g some chunk of fallen building laying on a road, and not lined up so that when I as for cover fire at some point, they don't try to blast me in the back if I am sqatting in front of them etc..
In some of the maps (the stuff that the player actually sees, walks on etc., in the game, one finds enemy groups being spawned into the game under various conditions. So one is never sure what buildings, cover, angles areas they will come at you or take up a sniper position for instance. So I have to control my squad accordingly to keep their danger level low as well as attempting to take out a often determined enemy.
At any rate, it has been a great diversion. I also can hop in a say a F16 and fly anywhere around the world from and to the many airbases I had established in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2001. Plus do carrier ops, e.g. catapult and wire landings on positioned carriers, in the Persian Gulf, of Vietnam, of China, east/west coast USA, south America and Med. So life is never boring. It is great being a 59 year old kid again!