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The analysis of the code is very interesting: https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside This was one of the links in the
by greenyoda 6y ago
The analysis of the code is very interesting:
https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/inside
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.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010
- masswerk 6y agoAlso, have a look at J.M. Graetz's account of how the game came into being (here in a comprehensively redacted version): https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/SpacewarOrigin.html https://www.masswerk.at/spacewar/SpacewarOrigin.html