Philipp Hachtmann wrote:
Hey folks,
I am curious about the existence of PDP-8 games making use of a CRT
display. Would be fun to have more than Spacewar...
And: I found a SPCWR3.PA somewhere on the web. It has built in support
for the LAB-8/e programmable real time clock. But... The clock doesn't
generate interrupts, display is painted only on a key stroke. Anyone a clue?
A long time ago there were a number of games for the VT01 written at
Carleton College (in MN) for the PDP-8/L in a varient of FOCAL called
COLPAC. The VT01 was a vector storage scope discussed here recently.
I saw on ebay the other day a tray of tapes (which sold for an
astounding price) one of which was something like "BYU boob tube" in
COLPAC. It must have been a decus submission.
I'd personally enjoy finding sources for COLPAC and some of the games if
anyone has ever seen them. probably long gone...
As I recall COLPAC ran on an 8/L with 8K. Some of the code was in the
second field as well as the data. It had extensions to FOCAL to plot
lines, arcs, circles and text. And to erase the screen. It had a built
in font also which you could scale and you could input from that cool
lost-in-space style joystick. The 8/L's were connect to a central 8/I
running TSS/8 via a serial port.
-brad