[TUHS] Sad News - we last two wonderful people in the past few weeks.
Andrew Hume
andrew at humeweb.com
Sat Apr 9 09:14:56 AEST 2022
i do fondly remember the gt-40 and the many hours playing on it.
and i do remember the DEC engineers being bothered about replacing the registers.
> On Apr 8, 2022, at 3:29 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> I have fond memories of playing it on the GT-40, and if Andrew Hume is
> reading this he'll remember reverse-engineering the code and modifying it
> for three-play operation; I think Peter Ivanov also implemented reverse
> gravity...
>
> Eventually DEC Field Circus stopped replacing GT-40 switch registers if
> they'd suspected that they were used for playing it :-)
>
> The GT-40 had a primitive loader; it was Craig McGregor of the CSU (UNSW)
> who used it to download an 8-bit loader for things like Lunar Lander (I
> only wrote a simple "Life" program for it, using the light-pen).
>
> -- Dave
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