[HN Gopher] The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1 ___________________________________________________________________ The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1 Author : CharlesW Score : 31 points Date : 2020-12-19 21:16 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.masswerk.at) (TXT) w3m dump (www.masswerk.at) | greenyoda wrote: | The analysis of the code is very interesting: | | https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside | | This was one of the links in the text you see if you scroll down | the page instead of starting the game. Lots of other interesting | information there too. | | I've never played the original game on the PDP-1, but in the late | 1970s I played a clone of it that ran on an 8080 system[1] hooked | up to a Tektronix 4010[2] storage-tube terminal. | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 | | [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010 | donpdonp wrote: | I've never played so this is fun to see how it works. There is a | lot of opportunity for strategy - good replayability. | sedatk wrote: | They ran Spacewar on a real DEC PDP-1 in Computer History Museum | in Mountain View, CA 3-4 years ago, and let us play it ourselves. | The presenter was one of the developers worked on it IIRC. | sbuttgereit wrote: | Yep. A friend of mine and myself got do this as well; CHM was | running this pretty much every weekend as I recall. An | incredible experience considering we went to the museum that | day on a whim with no specific plan. | | Stephen Russell was talking to the participants and Peter | Samson was actually operating the PDP-1... my guess is this was | a regular thing for them. | | An interesting note... not only was Stephen Russell a creator | of effectively the first computer video game... he wrote the | first Lisp interpreter based on John McCarthy's paper. | cpr wrote: | Wow, now _that_ brings back flooding memories of playing Spacewar | on the HARV-1 computer late nights, networked to HARV-10 (a | DEC-10) circa 1972... | boboche wrote: | Good times ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-12-19 23:00 UTC)