17 Jun
2024
17 Jun
'24
3:01 p.m.
I ha e one for the Honeywell DDP 516 and that class of system on
vintagecomputer.net, extracted from papertape...search "lander" it
should.come up, feed it into simh.
Contact me if you successfully get it to work.
Bill
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024, 5:36 PM Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Fascinating -
and there was a video game made by Atari called Lunar
Lander which also tried to put a LEM safely on the surface.
At the U of Alberta in the graphics terminal room in the General
Services Bldg., next door to the I/O room (pick up and drop
off cards and printouts from the MTS Amdahl), there was a short
rack with a ~10U PDP of some flavour connected to a rack mount
GT-40 graphics terminal. There was a version of lunar lander
you could download into the PDP from the MTS system and play off-
line (i.e. free). You used a light pen to control everything,
and the goal was to land successfully beside the only McDonalds
on the moon.
--lyndon