[game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation

[Andrew Armstrong]

I could ask at the National Museum of Computing in the UK, am going 
there again (and restarting my volunteering I hope) this weekend. I am 
sure they have some PDP machines, not sure which ones but I am sure I 
can take along the specs and see, not sure about the scope though. If no 
one knows in person I'll ask on their mailing list, there's a few people 
who might have the know-how or possibly have emulator information.

Do you think you'd be able to put the text format online for use, I 
mean, since you can't exactly get to the UK if I did happen to find the 
museum has a working model that would (potentially) run it?

Andrew

On 08/04/2010 03:56, Devin Monnens 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...

>

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