Space War?

From: Tom Owad <owad_at_applefritter.com>
Date: Fri Jul 6 08:06:15 2001

> SPACEWAR: n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by
> E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships
> duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and
> jumping through hyperspace. This game was first implemented on the
> PDP-1 at MIT in 1960--61. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of
> the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant
> of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a
> scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became {{UNIX}}. Less
> than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialized as one of
> the first video games; descendants are still {feep}ing in video
> arcades everywhere.

Are there any ports of SPACEWAR to the Mac or PC that are completely true
to the original?

Tom

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