In a google search, I saw a textbook mention of the game, and that it was ported. No mention of the software. Did find a web site with the PDP-1 version with a PDP-1 emulator on the browser page at http://www.geek.com/articles/games/play-spacewar-on-the-dec-pdp-1-emulated-in-your-browser-20121211/
Maybe someone can isolate the PDP-1 source and re-port it? I am fairly certain the Star Trek and Klingon games are on the CBTTape.org site. On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Sean P. McBride <spmcbr...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > All, > > I recently found out that Edson Hendricks (the creator of VNET) wrote a copy > of Spacewar! for the IBM System 360 while he was an MIT student. It was > based on the PDP-1 version, and it was used by MIT for their annual open > house in either 1965 or 1966. My understanding is that this S/360 version > ended up getting played by IBMers at the IBM Research Lab, which resulted in > a corporate ban of running the software on IBM machines. Considering that > the source should run on modern IBM mainframes with some code modification, I > thought that this might be something worth resurrecting for the 50th > anniversary of the System 360 announcement. Do any of you ever recall > playing this game on an IBM mainframe or hearing about others that might have > done this? Do any of you have suggests for finding the source code for this > S/360 version? Edson does not have a copy, and I have not yet heard back the > from Computer History Museum. > > Thanks for your help!!! > > Respectfully, > Sean P. McBride > Millennialmainframer.com -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
