On 2024/06/17 12:26 p.m., Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 1:53 PM Mike Katz via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
I remember running this program at school in the mid 1970's.
This runs on 4K Focal '69 without the extended functions enabled. So it
should run on a 4K PDP-8/L.
...
It was available as FOCAL8-81 from DECUS (Submitted 20-Jan-1970):
https://svn.so-much-stuff.com/svn/trunk/pdp8/src/decus/focal8-81/
I have run this at VCF on a 4K PDP-8.
-ethan
Fascinating - and there was a video game made by Atari called Lunar
Lander which also tried to put a LEM safely on the surface.
Some more of the history of the games (from 2009):
technologizer.com
Forty Years of Lunar Lander <#>
Lunar Lander games abound on every platform. Along with Tetris and
Pac-Man, the game--in which your mission is to safely maneuver your
lunar module onto the moon's surface--is one of the most widely cloned
computer games of all time. But did you know that game players began
touching down on the moon in Lunar Lander…
🔗 https://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/index.html
<https://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/index.html>
John :-#)#
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