[game_preservation] PDP-5 Emulation

[Martin Goldberg]

Devin, just asked over on the vintage computing list.  Most of the
people involved with the computing museums are on it.

Marty

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Devin Monnens <dmonnens at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

> Sent from my iPhone

> 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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