15 Oct
2019
15 Oct
'19
2:57 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 09:51:02AM -0500, Daniel Seagraves via cctalk wrote:
While dumping lispm tapes, I found one with a label
saying "Read it
into DRAL" (may be "DRAC"?) "and sent a message to cap's bboard
saying where it can be found. -Bob?. There was another paper label
that had fallen off. What I think is the label in question was later
found in the bottom of the box, a strip of masking tape saying
?SPACEWAR FOR VAX (Unix?)?. The contents are a 136KB tar archive
containing source to a program called ?orbit?, all files are dated
August 22nd, 1983.
I unpacked it. The beginning of orbit.man says:
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.SH NAME
orbit \- Spacewar on the Sun
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B
orbit <players>
.PP
.B
orbit <ship1name> ... [-O <optionfile>]
.SH DESCRIPTION
The classic game of interplanetary death and destruction.
Mostly written in C; an assembler package does fast single-precision
floating-point for orbital calculations and collision detection.
.PP
Most of the game's basic parameters are changeable;
parameter sets can be saved and reloaded from option files.
If the file .orbitrc exists in your
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and the fp.s file looks to me like a Motorola assembler, but I may be
wrong. In main.c there are references to something like graphics
routines making use of framebuffer. The structure of filesystem
mentioned in Makefile hints towards Unix-like system.
I would say, after very quick looking, it is rather for SunOS, not for
anything DEC-made.
I wonder if others may come to different conclusions?
--
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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