18 Jul
2004
18 Jul
'04
12:14 p.m.
I'm pretty familiar with the VT-11 (GT-40) instruction set, and would be
able to write a port
of that code to run on a HP1350 vector box.
Does anyone have the source code?
I've been looking at the PDP-1 source, but I don't know the PDP-1 very
well (yet), nor do
I understand its display system. VT-11 code might be a much shorter
learning curve for me
to port to the HP's.
Pete Turnbull wrote:
On Jul 16, 22:18, Ashley Carder wrote:
RSTS/E. The early versions were text based and
you could run them on
an LA36 DecWriter or ASR-33 teletype. A friend of mine converted one
to run on a VT50 terminal where it would update the screen.
I might be thinking of a star trek game because the VT50 version was
called TVTREK.BAS, but I think one of the text based games was called
SPACWR.BAS. I have old program listings from 1978 and I think I have
soft copies of some of these. I'll check.
SPACWR.BAS is a version of Star Trek, published by David Ahl in "101
BASIC Computer Games". It's not related to Spacewar, which isn't
text-based.
There is a version of Spacewar for PDP-11, though, with a GT40. I
think Megan has a copy, and I think it runs under RT-11. I must fix my
GT40 and do something about that...