From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 26c9c630 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 08:48:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id B4C739BDD8; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:48:06 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02C119BF9E; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:47:38 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: minnie.tuhs.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (1024-bit key; unprotected) header.d=qswarm.com header.i=@qswarm.com header.b="JbLW9e8r"; dkim-atps=neutral Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E1FBC9BDD8; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:46:27 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 315 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 09 Dec 2019 18:46:27 AEST Received: from mail2.protonmail.ch (mail2.protonmail.ch [185.70.40.22]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 247B09B57D for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2019 18:46:27 +1000 (AEST) Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 08:41:02 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=qswarm.com; s=protonmail; t=1575880864; bh=tndeMtol01HzWzGUTG5FzbePLMTuv1UXGLr6zxpNNoE=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References: Feedback-ID:From; b=JbLW9e8rlpA3TeZ7CboYEGeCXxkrZwSYByX+LvVALZo2hKwIJHM6+zKYYbonOKF4q AJKLur7HnUoZZl8jNPz75fPE/Fhv6KCgH9lsaINzz9JOjE5QJrvRly5ijOh+8+gjW+ ZNSzA4TrDBC3cdJ9Xd3qhFRZlS5/vcABzOzO1Mro= To: Ken Thompson From: Gabriel Diaz Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: <3d1053b0debfc5a79267860e058b1d07e7686811@webmail.yaccman.com> <25D66740-7832-4BE9-877E-7F4C905B4195@gmail.com> Feedback-ID: OZcBW1uPQ_6itk5sFckp9DsKI2W_VzpWWJAVt33TSROxA8cj1BXWCr-eCdJKt3DZsablxchzk_ps2MNrSVzfxg==:Ext:ProtonMail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256; boundary="---------------------dc909444f0fc0d5b19604665a3890207"; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: Gabriel Diaz Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) -----------------------dc909444f0fc0d5b19604665a3890207 Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary=---------------------899762f4f10d9f7d80425479b74c6fa5 -----------------------899762f4f10d9f7d80425479b74c6fa5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Than you all! I've found a game demo on youtube on a working PDP-1 at the computer histo= ry museum. = Spacewars demo https://youtu.be/1EWQYAfuMYw?t=3D838 Video from the start https://youtu.be/1EWQYAfuMYw The whole video show a music program, the display adapter, the spacewars d= emo and the light-pen. Pretty amazing machine. Gabi =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 Original M= essage =E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90=E2=80=90 El lunes, diciembre 9, 2019 3:19 AM, Ken Thompson via TUHS escribi=C3=B3: > space war. (old age) > = > On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 6:15 PM Rob Pike robpike@gmail.com wrote: > = > > Space war? > > -rob > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 1:11 PM Ken Thompson ken@google.com wrote: > > = > > > my favorite is the original star wars on the pdp-1. > > > i think it came from lincoln labs, but i played it > > > in 1965-1966 at stanford. > > > a very good replica was done on unix by dmr. > > > On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 6:03 PM Rob Pike robpike@gmail.com wrote: > > > = > > > > My favorite (other than Nuke the Smileys) was written at the UofT = by Hugh Redelmeier. It was a version of tic-tac-toe that played only a sin= gle line, and would always win. If it didn't like your move, it changed it= . If your move was a good one, it would change its previous move. And it d= id this with lovely little messages. It was fun watching people get upset = at it. > > > > I don't know where the source is nowadays. I may have it somewhere= , or it might be ferric dust long since swept up from a cupboard of failed= 9-track tapes. > > > > -rob > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 11:47 AM Adam Thornton athornton@gmail.com = wrote: > > > > = > > > > > > On Dec 8, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Ken Thompson via TUHS tuhs@minnie.= tuhs.org wrote: > > > > > > in the early 70s, noone had seen a computer. > > > > > > i had a terminal at home and we were giving > > > > > > a dinner party. i wrote several games for the > > > > > > party from the back of an off-the-shelf puzzle > > > > > > book. > > > > > > the ones i remember: > > > > > > moo (bulls + cows) > > > > > > hunt the wumpus (move or shoot) > > > > > > learning tic-tac-toe > > > > > > i can guess your number (divide and conquer) > > > > > > jealous husbands (similar to fox hen corn) > > > > > > nim > > > > > > i think there were more. they went over > > > > > > pretty well at the party. > > > > > > i think this was 1969 or 1970. > > > > > = > > > > > Clarification, please. > > > > > Was =E2=80=9CHunt the Wumpus=E2=80=9D from the back of an off-th= e-shelf puzzle book? I thought it was by Gregory Yob (per the Creative Com= puting BASIC Computer Games book=E2=80=94Wumpus may have been in More BASI= C Computer Games), and, well, it=E2=80=99s about dodecahedronal geometry, = which seems as if it would only have been found in a rather rarefied puzzl= e book, but does seem like the sort of Platonic solid a computer-programmi= ng nerd in the early 1970s would have known about. > > > > > Adam -----------------------899762f4f10d9f7d80425479b74c6fa5-- -----------------------dc909444f0fc0d5b19604665a3890207 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wsFcBAEBCAAGBQJd7gicAAoJEKehdYCUevjEOGEQAI3bw2NpYKvqMsxVb6ER 6GMc21g8Sas1P5QS2hyUQai7QlyHqU86S0CX6vn8/3rgrDap+pJe7QHDjSV2 OEPFUdViH5MOVqkbj3I6ZhU5RMRakIAM+/aTSW34GtMJK4UsqSKy0q0snYRn RIQvifz3uBsC5UO182nTTI4yATG9QUjez+HbF6xv0WFxaFOFx/tQ2db9FSGS tyricGNAYSpnRFuedMnvh79C0ooAeVR/BHbTAPeScI3b///8y7gf5hON4ZuN K8qDmsrizkZURqeeuwlgsBfE7AgXCFsezLv/RWFJ+PEZkvOUJy4YB2LEoevl vuz8xS81BWROzTE+dXBRHWE3p8Ayo06k5emVCSsfDTQzV9NioU+Egnj+9R2a fqVcRV7UrT1WozK2Eu7nGXFwH6w66V87dCTuSMqTPukBzZfPJl6X/Y7c6mQm 1lUhPrtjyAo/hd2NZ5oQImHOlAuqsG2sZefiMxx0oHf8HC+9MA+r1/DAxSZU Udw/rH5vn5SMTWGwPDW986L8Dn/Rvp8cdVc5sJ32/HZV6sKoO65qZC+mfxxN AI0mTiLCx3dzKpptN3zI4DyUXToJfZllr91cFyy4uw4qmYt+MqS8ztJ3OofV G6qsO6Qb1HNpfD08Yf7vPyPa2+UElpxMFcX87nowZiMLRJjAMhSyIFouguiX jM/8 =mHlp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----------------------dc909444f0fc0d5b19604665a3890207--