23 Oct
1998
23 Oct
'98
5:23 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. 
23 Oct
23 Oct
4:31 a.m.
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 :)
Stop, my question was not about greating a game on a PDP.
The intention was to build a computer game where building
a PDP (or something like that) is the goal ... Such a basic
build up an economy game like Civilisation etc. But instead
of geting welthier all the time you have to build up a PDP as
soon as possible 
4:40 a.m.
Ah! I misunderstood. That's a cool idea. There
is an open source
version of Civilization floating around. Perhaps that could be
adapted, not that we couldn't steal a start from somewhere else...
My Lord Hammurabi, I beg to report to you that this year we
have produced 1,000 transistors and 400 rallods of copper
wire.
How much copper do you want smelt this year?
I don't know about that -- it would make the game rather difficult.
Rats have eaten 320 transistors.
Do you want to buy or sell stock?
Or maybe that should be:
Surplus shops have taken 215 transistors.
Do you want to buy or sell source code?
-- Derek
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