[Simh] PDP-11 Spacewar?

Mark Pizzolato Mark at infocomm.com
Fri Nov 9 10:16:48 EST 2018


On Friday, November 9, 2018 at 7:00 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
> > On Nov 9, 2018, at 5:24 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> >
> > On 2018-11-09 10:18, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> This seems to be a Spacewar for PDP-11.  Written using the PALX cross
> >> assembler.  But what kind of display is it using?
> >> https://github.com/PDP-10/its-vault/blob/master/files/rjl/war11.3
> >
> > Suspect it might be this:
> > http://www.computerhistory.org/visiblestorage/1970s-1990s/games-and-
> > robots/arcade/
> >
> > CHM have one. Not sure exactly what display it used, but it's obviously a
> > vector display.
> 
> I don't think so.  Look at function LINE, it's a typical "step through the dots that
> make up a vector" algorithm.  Not Bresenham I think but something along
> those lines.
> 
> > Pretty fun to see something written for an 11/20 with EAE. That was a pretty
> > short lived option...
> 
> Does SIMH support EAE?

Yes.  There is a KE11 device which Bob wrote.

- Mark




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