23 Oct
1998
23 Oct
'98
2:23 a.m.
> You play
the game like this:
> 1) Scout for a surface deposit of Coal and start mining coal.
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>> 14) Using iron, and wire build generator.
>> 15) Using generator create electricity.
>> 18) Mine tungsten and build lightbulb.
>> ...
>> First one to a PDP-8 wins :-) Hey! I though about this for a grad project in
History - build a computer
using Roman technology (metallurgy, etc., since the Romans didn't have
electricity).
Just what do you want ? The Z1 was _complete_ echanical and
was build by hand on a kitchen table - and used anything
also known from modern computers, including binary floating
point.
What about
creating a Game ?
Of course all Graphics has to be ASCII :)
Not on a PDP-8. There was a vector graphics board set. It used an
oscilloscope for a display tube. As was proven in a patent lawsuit
filed against Nintendo, video games did exist before Pong, just not
in the living rooms of America.