The sum total of my knowledge on this is an article in Creative Computing
magazine (Aug 1981, Vol 7, No 8) by J. Martin Graetz, one of the guys who
wrote it. I see someone has already posted the URL:
http://lcs.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/
That's what got me to dig out the old article the other night. Graetz
mentioned in the article that "Spacewar!" was ported to almost any machine
of the day that had a scope. I don't know about being the "first game", but
as far as arcade type game... I think it could lay a serious claim.
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Shannon <bshannon_at_tiac.net>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Thursday, July 05, 2001 7:37 PM
Subject: Space War?
>As I understand it, the first video game ever was space war, written at
MIT.
>
>Does anyone here know anything about a port of space war for the HP2115?
>
>Many years ago I purchased a 2115 from the MIT equipment exchange. Paper
>lables on the front panel suggest that the machine at one time played space
>war.
>
>I've kept the core unlatered, but the idea of reverse engineering whatever
>code
>may (or may not) be stored in core seems impractical. The machine had all
its
>
>I/O boards removed before I got to it.
>
>I'm tempted to simply ignore the original contents of the core at this
point,
>and
>load something interesting for VCF East, but before I alter it, I'd like to
>ask if
>anyone has heard of space war running on old HP mini's?
>
>
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