From: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:14:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ECF77E9-232D-468E-9F85-2CA8026505C5@humeweb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2204090821440.48016@aneurin.horsfall.org>
i do fondly remember the gt-40 and the many hours playing on it.
and i do remember the DEC engineers being bothered about replacing the registers.
> On Apr 8, 2022, at 3:29 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> I have fond memories of playing it on the GT-40, and if Andrew Hume is
> reading this he'll remember reverse-engineering the code and modifying it
> for three-play operation; I think Peter Ivanov also implemented reverse
> gravity...
>
> Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers if
> they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-)
>
> The GT-40 had a primitive loader; it was Craig McGregor of the CSU (UNSW)
> who used it to download an 8-bit loader for things like Lunar Lander (I
> only wrote a simple "Life" program for it, using the light-pen).
>
> -- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-08 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-08 20:48 Clem Cole
2022-04-08 22:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-04-08 22:44 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-04-09 5:49 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2022-04-09 8:07 ` Rob Pike
2022-04-09 11:10 ` Warner Losh
2022-04-09 9:20 ` Ron Natalie
2022-04-09 16:23 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-10 10:14 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-04-10 13:40 ` Clem Cole
2022-04-08 23:14 ` Andrew Hume [this message]
2022-04-08 23:53 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 0:28 ` Phil Budne
2022-04-09 2:03 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 10:46 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-04-09 10:51 ` George Michaelson
2022-04-09 14:30 ` Andrew Hume
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