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I saw that presentation last week. What I found even more awesome than the presentation itself was that the presenters were Peter Samson and Steve Russell, the
by microtherion 14y ago
I saw that presentation last week. What I found even more awesome than the presentation itself was that the presenters were Peter Samson and Steve Russell, the two MIT hackers who had written the software originally.
- jgw 14y agoSteve Russell, as in "I actually made Lisp a programming language rather than just a mathematical notation" Steve Russell? Also, I absolutely love this demo. It's really a work of art. It really puts to shame my humble plan to finish my Osborne 1 emulator and put it on the web.
- microtherion 14y agoYes, that would be the guy, although in the context of the PDP-1, he was only talking about Spacewar. Samson was demonstrating four part audio synthesis of Bach organ pieces. It turns out that during the restoration project, they came across some of his original data tapes encoding the music, but the software was long lost, so he recreated his hack 50 years later, with the additional constraint that he had to reconstruct his data format and remain compatible with it!
- gruseom 14y agoWow! Is that online?
- masswerk 14y agoSpeaking of Steve Russell: Meanwhile I've received a quite flattering mail from S.R. on the authenticity of the feel of the version of "Spacewar!" associated to the page. http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar http://www.masswerk.at/spacewar