11 Jan
2013
11 Jan
'13
6:55 a.m.
Lyle Bickley wrote:
I had often run D.E. WREGE's version of Spacewar!
on my PDP-12. But
when I tried to run it on my PDP-8/E with a VC8/E and DEC VT01 (Tek
611), I would get flashing artifacts on the screen in addition to the
normal display.
[...]
BTW: Slower displays, such as the VT01/Tek611/Tek613, do NOT need a
clock to slow down Spacewar to an appropriate speed.
You've got me confused. I thought you said that the VT01/Tek611 was
where you had the problem.
I used to run it on a LAB-8/e using a VR14 monitor, and didn't observe
the problem, but I think the VR14 is pretty slow.
Eric