Spacewar! (was Re: Laser display...)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Thu Feb 17 10:16:22 2005

der Mouse wrote:
> I'd like to get hold of the code, and enough hardware docs to build an
> emulator - can you point me at such?

As usual, bitsavers.org.

Though there are already multiple PDP-1 simulators out there that can
run Spacewar, including Bob Supnik's SIMH, and another one in Java by
Brian Silverman.

> While it wouldn't be nearly as
> cool as the real thing, seeing at least an approximation to the real
> thing's display under something philosophically MAMEish (and perhaps
> even within the MAME framework) would be Pretty Cool,

Haven't the M.E.S.S. guys already done that?

Eric
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 10:16:22 GMT