[Simh] Fwd: Non-Biz: Humor(?) 40th Anniversary of the GT40 Moonlander - And You Can Play It Now......

[Clem Cole]

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I still have a hankering to play a graphic version of lunar lander or
> spacewar on my Macbook Pro on an OS that I administer :).


​Will,

How about​ your iPad?  My friend Jack Burness (the author of the original
GT40 Moonlander) sent this message to a few of us 2 years ago.....


Clem

As some one interested in PDP-11 assembly, do take a look at his code.
His sin/cos table is very cute.   Also he generated everything from
scratch, except the values for the altitude of the LEM, the amount of fuel
left, thrust it could produce, *etc*. That came from the MIT library (way
pre-internet). As Jack said, he wound up having to give more fuel at that
point than they really would have, because it otherwise was simply too
difficult to do it.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jack Burness
Date: Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 11:10 AM
Subject: Non-Biz: Humor(?) 40th Anniversary of the GT40 Moonlander - And
You Can Play It Now......
To:
List



For those that remember Moonlander, the “final” version was created 40
years ago on February 25, 1973. But thanks to Rick Naro you can play it
right now. On your iPad (sorry, it doesn’t work on an iPhone).



It is amazingly like the original.



Just download the app Moonlander Classic by Paradigm Systems from the
appstore. It’s free.



And amidst the credits and faqs there are interesting tidbits of
information, including the original source code……
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