Right, the 12 had A/D and joystick - the later is actually why the original
Masscomp system had a joystick, not a mouse (a separate story - WRT's the
12's HW lead, the late Lorin Gale).   There might be an ISPS description of
it somewhere.
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 5:17 AM Pontus Pihlgren <pon...@update.uu.se> wrote:

> Hi
>
> It has been discussed before, but the PDP-12 had one or two ports of
> Spacewar as well. While there is no support for the PDP-12 in simh, I
> think similar A/D equipment was available for the PDP-8 to attach
> controllers.
>
> Perhaps something to look into?
>
> Regards,
> Pontus.
>
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:05:59AM +0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm adding simulations of some historical gaming devices to SIMH:
> >
> > - PDP-6/10 Spacewar consoles.  Five switches, times four players.
> > - PDP-6/10 A/D converter.  Not really gaming, but used for games.
> > - PDP-11 Dazzle Dart boxes.  Eight switches, times four players.
> > - PDP-11 Galaxy Game?  I haven't looked at this yet.
> >
> > The SDL2 library used by sim_video provides inputs from USB joysticks
> > and game controllers.
> >
> > If anyone knows about any other similar devices, I'd like to take those
> > into consideration.
> >
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