[HN Gopher] The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1
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       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)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.masswerk.at)
        
       | greenyoda wrote:
       | The analysis of the code is very interesting:
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       | https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside
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       | 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.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
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       | [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.
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         | 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
        
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