[game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation

[Susan L Rojo]

Hello, 
You might also try the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View as they have a PDP-1 and have a number of volunteers who used it back in the day. They may also be familiar with the PDP-5 and PDP-8 and what emulators are available. 

~Susan 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Goldberg" <wgungfu at gmail.com> 
To: "IGDA Game Preservation SIG" <game_preservation at igda.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 8:30:58 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation 

Devin, you might try and check on the classic computing mailing list. 
There should be a few old timers on there that can also check to make 
sure the blurred areas are accurately translated assembly. 

Marty 

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote: 

> I have transcribed ICBM into text format. There were a few areas of the 

> printout that were a little too blurried for me to make them out with 100% 

> accuracy, but I have a 95% confidence that the code is accurate. This is a 

> graphical game that ran on the PDP-5. I don't think it will run on a PDP-8, 

> as the catalog number is 5-277, which suggests to me it uses just the PDP-5. 

> In any event, here are the hardware requirements: 

> 4K PDP-5, ASR33, Type 34 Scope Display 

> Source Language: PAL III [assembly] 

> Trouble is, there aren't any PDP-5 emulators out there, and I can't find any 

> PDP-8 emulators that supports a scope. Hadn't considered that part... Does 

> anyone here know anything about PDP-5/8 emulation? I would like to try and 

> get this thing running... 

> -- 

> Devin Monnens 

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> 

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