Starting from Scratch (was Re: OT: Modern college educa

From: Hans Franke <franke_at_sbs.de>
Date: Fri Oct 23 09:23:40 1998

>>> You play the game like this:
>>> 1) Scout for a surface deposit of Coal and start mining coal.
> .
> .
> .
>>> 14) Using iron, and wire build generator.
>>> 15) Using generator create electricity.
>>> 18) Mine tungsten and build lightbulb.
>>> ...
>>> First one to a PDP-8 wins :-)

> Hey! I though about this for a grad project in History - build a computer
> using Roman technology (metallurgy, etc., since the Romans didn't have
> electricity).

Just what do you want ? The Z1 was _complete_ echanical and
was build by hand on a kitchen table - and used anything
also known from modern computers, including binary floating
point.

>> What about creating a Game ?
>> Of course all Graphics has to be ASCII :)
>
> Not on a PDP-8. There was a vector graphics board set. It used an
> oscilloscope for a display tube. As was proven in a patent lawsuit
> filed against Nintendo, video games did exist before Pong, just not
> in the living rooms of America.

Stop, my question was not about greating a game on a PDP.
The intention was to build a computer game where building
a PDP (or something like that) is the goal ... Such a basic
build up an economy game like Civilisation etc. But instead
of geting welthier all the time you have to build up a PDP as
soon as possible

Gruss
H.

--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 09:23:40 BST

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