Re: Game of Life for PDP-8

2019-04-07 Thread Bill Degnan via cctalk
> > Would love to hear some comments if anyone plays with this. And, if someone > significantly speeds things up while keeping the large playing field, I'll > be very happy to hear how! > > Kyle > A few years ago I made some videos of the output on vt50 driven by my pdp8e. Spontaneous generation

Game of Life for PDP-8

2019-04-07 Thread Kyle Owen via cctalk
Back at VCF PNW, the subject of the Game of Life came up among some peers. I recall messing with the BASIC version that supported 32 by 32 cells, and there's also a FOCAL version that can do a whopping 11 by 11 cells. This was simply not enough. So, I wrote my own implementation and came to the re

Re: Pleas ID this IBM system....

2019-04-07 Thread P Gebhardt via cctalk
wow! ...Hopefully some larger museums or seriously envolved hobbyists within Germany can take care of this piece of history to save this nice piece of computer history. --- Pierre's collection of classic computers move