On 24 Feb 2013 23:37:07 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >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?
Is the MICHMODS OS360 precursor to the CBT tape archived anywhere? the Goddard tape? Clark Morris > >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 <[email protected]> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
