[TUHS] Spacewar at Bell Labs

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Wed Jan 15 02:59:11 AEST 2020


Lars Brinkhoff writes:
> Hello,
>
> https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/spacetravel.html says:
>
> > Later we fixed Space Travel so it would run under (PDP-7) Unix instead
> > of standalone, and did also a very faithful copy of the Spacewar game
>
> I have a file with ".TITLE PDP-9/GRAPHIC II VERSION OF SPACEWAR".  (I
> hope it will go public soon.)  It seems to be a standalone program, and
> it's written in something close to MACRO-9 syntax.  I'm guessing the
> Bell Labs version would have been written using the Unix assembler.
>
> Best regards,
> Lars Brinkhoff

I have a copy of double-sun space war (sorry, just the binary) for the
PDP-15/GRIN-2 on DEC fan-fold paper tape with the boot loader written
in octal on the leader.  Not sure if it's of any use but it's a nice
historical artifact from the BTL explorer scout days.

Jon


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