Re: [TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.

[George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>]

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There was a hack to stop the game and reload fuel and go 4000 to continue.
Maybe people who did not expect the front console to be used so heavily
broke the funky rocker switches.

G

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022, 8:46 pm Ralph Corderoy, <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers
> > if they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-)
>
> Andrew Hume wrote:
> > i do remember the DEC engineers being bothered about replacing the
> > registers.
>
> There's nothing at
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(video_game_genre)#Lunar_Lander_(1973)
> about the switch registers being worn by playing Burness's Moonlander.
> What's the connection?
>
> There are a couple of links from that section to interesting pages with
> quotes from Burness,
>     https://www.acriticalhit.com/moonlander-one-giant-leap-for-game-design
>     https://www.technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/
> which include a photo that's captioned as Burness and Moonlander from
> circa '74:
>
> https://www.acriticalhit.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/unnamed-LG-2.png
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>

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