From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 08:59:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202001141659.00EGxBTs1036759@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7wmuaqju3u.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>
Lars Brinkhoff writes:
> Hello,
>
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/spacetravel.html says:
>
> > Later we fixed Space Travel so it would run under (PDP-7) Unix instead
> > of standalone, and did also a very faithful copy of the Spacewar game
>
> I have a file with ".TITLE PDP-9/GRAPHIC II VERSION OF SPACEWAR". (I
> hope it will go public soon.) It seems to be a standalone program, and
> it's written in something close to MACRO-9 syntax. I'm guessing the
> Bell Labs version would have been written using the Unix assembler.
>
> Best regards,
> Lars Brinkhoff
I have a copy of double-sun space war (sorry, just the binary) for the
PDP-15/GRIN-2 on DEC fan-fold paper tape with the boot loader written
in octal on the leader. Not sure if it's of any use but it's a nice
historical artifact from the BTL explorer scout days.
Jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 8:54 Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-14 16:59 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2020-01-14 17:15 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-14 17:19 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-14 17:26 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 23:32 ` Al Kossow
2020-01-14 17:25 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-15 3:32 Brian Walden
2020-01-15 4:01 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-15 4:50 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-15 6:17 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-15 6:34 ` Earl Baugh
2020-01-15 12:29 ` John Foust
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