[game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation

[Devin Monnens]

Yeah, I can upload it...there's just understandably something cool  
about being the first person in 35 years to play this ;-) I can upload  
it in the next day or two.

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On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:03 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>  
wrote:


> 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...

>>

>> -- 

>> Devin Monnens

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