22 Jul
2009
22 Jul
'09
10:35 p.m.
On 22 Jul 2009 at 22:18, Dan Roganti wrote:
40 yrs of Lunar Lander - the other anniversary
http://technologizer.com/2009/07/19/lunar-lander/
"Lexington High School had a PDP-8," Storer recalls. "It had 8
Teletypes, a small hard drive, and 12KB of main memory, where 8KB was
used by the system and 4KB time shared by the users." Storer wrote his
new program, "Lunar Landing Game," in FOCAL, a programming language
for the PDP-8 that was similar in some ways to BASIC (both were
introductory languages known for their ease of use). His simulation
was simple, yet powerful: underneath lay a realistic set of equations
Storer believes his father may have taught him.
I've played the LEM game on a CDC 6600 operator's console way back
when. Was that the first graphical version of the game? How many
other games used graphics in 1970?
--Chuck